Upgrade YDL 3.0 to 4.0 on Oldworld Powerbook 3400

[Lewis Coleman]

Yes, I use the graphical login screen.  The problem happens 
intermittently.  But whatever I have done (nothing??), I seem to be 
able to use kernel 2.6.8.1ydl without problems now.  It might have been 
that BootX was confused by my multiple kernels--I did remove some of 
them!
                 Lewis Coleman

On Thursday, December 9, 2004, at 03:11  AM, Geert Janssens wrote:

> Lewis Coleman wrote:
>> Thanks to Geert Janssens and R. McFarlane, I got three of four 
>> questions answered (see my comments below).  The third one is still 
>> not answered:
>> Question #3:   When running kernel 2.6 on YDL 3.0 (and intermittently 
>> on 4.0) and just after the BootX part, the screen goes blank until 
>> the computer has completed the boot up.  (I mean no screenfuls of 
>> garbage scrolling too fast to read!)  When there is an error on boot 
>> up the only way I can tell is when I come back after lunch, the 
>> screen is still blank!! (not helpful!).  How can I fix this?
>> Has no one else had this problem?
> Just some hints, no conclusive answers...
>
> What do you mean with 'completed the boot up' ?. Do you mean, 'when 
> the graphical login screen appears ?', or do you normally boot into a 
> text console, and start X manually ?

>
> In case you boot to runlevel 5 (this is directly into the graphical 
> login screen, as opposed to runlevl 3, for a text login), when you get 
> to the login screen, can you type ctrl-alt-f1 (or the equivalent on a 
> laptop) to go to the first virtual text console, and see if it's also 
> blank. If so, it might be that the kernel loads the wrong video module 
> for your system, or the module is bad in this kernel.
>
> There is a 'no video' option in BootX, which, if I'm remembering 
> correctly, actually means "use the video as provide by mac os rom, 
> instead of trying to setup you own" (this is simplified, I know).
>
> You could try to enable this option, and see what happens.
>
> Good luck,
>
> Geert Jan
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