Full boot text not displayed

[Jeffrey Windsor]

FWIW, the problem was completely solved for me by upgrading to YDL 3.

I had the same problem with Mandrake 9.1 (one of the main issues why I 
switched to YDL). You should check your logs just in case, but in my 
case it was a problem with the kernel. My logs told me that it couldn't 
get the framerate (for the console?!!?) and it somehow was trying to 
set up my iBook2 display as 1200x980 or whatever. This left me with a 
perfectly usable X11, but no console. Thus I couldn't use MOL 
fullscreen -- which was a major pain. In Mandrake, switching to a benh 
kernel fixed that -- but then broke a bunch of other built-in things 
(like, well, MOL). It was a major hassle.

I was finally able to get the full boot messages by adding 
"video=ofonly" to the boot args in yboot. I don't know if you can use 
those args in bootX. Then I upgraded to YDL and all is well. Good luck.

--jw

On Thursday, May 8, 2003, at 08:31 PM, Kevin Berrien wrote:

> I get the following peculiarity on my Wallstreet Powerbook when 
> botting YDL 3.0.  bootX is configured as No Video Driver - checked.
>
> Upon boot I get the initial kernal displays down to:
>
> Setup_arch: enter
> Setup_arch: bootmem
> arch::exit
>
> And then no further text display, no daeomons starting, nothing until 
> I get the graphical login.
>
> If I uncheck No Video Driver in bootX, I get video in 4 segments with 
> distortion lines, and the entire boot text IS displayed as normal, 
> graphical login starts up.
>
> Any thoughts.  While its not totally damaging, it's annoying and 
> tricky if I had any boot failure, etc.  I am using no kernal arguments 
> in bootX, run 1024x768 in X Windows.
>
> - Kevin
>
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