screen goes black..

[bruce woller]

Hey:

I have both YDL2 & 3 booting from an external SCSI HD.  There is one 
difference between 2 & 3 - that being that SCSI support loads as 
modules in 3 whereas it is built into the kernel in 2.  So in 3 if you 
have SCSI you must have the 'initrd=/boot/initrd-2.4.20-8d.img' line in 
your yaboot.conf (newworld) or boot parms with BootX(oldworld). Or 
optionally recompile the kernel with SCSI built in.   See discussion 
YDL 3.0 catch-22
I have had similar problems(black screen) with my G3 B&W.  One solution 
was to add 'append="video=aty128fb:vmode:15,cmode:16"' to the boot 
command line.  You might give it a try?

Regards,
Bruce
On Sunday, May 18, 2003, at 07:46  AM, Jeremy Steele wrote:

> It does that because ydl cannot boot on external hard drives. As far 
> as I know it has to be in an internal hd.
>
> On Sunday, May 18, 2003, at 08:12 AM, rjgoos@ydl.net wrote:
>
>> Hi, I've been trying to get either YDL 2 or YDL 3 to run on a Power 
>> Center 150
>> (lots of ram, YDL installed on an external scsi drive).
>>
>> The same problem happens either YDL 2 or 3...everything installs 
>> perfectly, but
>> when I boot into Linux, things go black after it is done with the 
>> text part of
>> boot-up.  If I use text login, it goes black after I log in (KDE 
>> continues to
>> load, you can tell because of the sound ditty that plays during the 
>> desktop
>> loading).  If I use graphical login, it goes black when it tries to 
>> load the
>> graphical login screen.
>>
>> Obviously it doesn't like something about the video on the machine, 
>> which has
>> nothing but an Apple "platinum" video card.
>>
>> Any suggestions?  I choose 800 x 600 and thousands of colors during
>> installation, should I have chosen something else?  I have an 
>> Applevision 1710
>> monitor.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> RJ Goos
>>
>>
>>
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