Re: PC164--No Video

[Rich Payne <rdp talisman alphalinux org>]

On Sat, 4 Dec 1999 tibor@lib.uaa.alaska.edu wrote:

> On Sat, 4 Dec 1999 tibor@lib.uaa.alaska.edu wrote:
> 
> > I just replaced the battery in mine, and now it seems to start up
> > consistently, however after I get past the bios information it seems to
> > hang right before I get the srm prompt.
> > 
> > I jumpered CF7 on the motherboard and it started the failsafe loader, and
> > I was able to re-flash srm, but when I restart the system I still hang at
> > a blue screen with a white underscore in the upper left corner.
> 
> Okay, I feel stupid now--I hit the return key and I got an srm prompt.
> I'll cross my fingers and hope that I can get RH 6.0 installed now....

do a 'show console' at the SRM command line. Chances are that the console
is set to serial instead of graphics (quite common). Just do a 'set
console graphics' and that shouldn't happen again.

--rdp


Rich Payne
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