Full boot text not displayed

[Kevin Berrien]

Very odd eh.  Before YDL 3 I was running Mandrake PPC ver 6?. Anways,
had no problems, until just recently it did the same in Mandrake. 
Thinking the box was hanging I screwed with it enough to totally hose
the box.  It was then I checked out YDL and switched.

A "benh" kernel, please elaborate.

- Kevin


On Thu, 2003-05-08 at 23:04, Jeffrey Windsor wrote:
> 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