Re: Powerstorm console goes blank during RH install

[Ken Crandall <crandall redhat com>]

On Thu, 2 Sep 1999 Jay.Estabrook@digital.com wrote:

> 
> >>> furio ercolessi said:
> > I am trying to install RH 6.0 on an ES40 with Powerstorm 3D30 graphics.
> > I do not care about X, but my problem is that the console video
> > goes blank (with the LED on the monitor blinking, probably meaning
> > no video signal) just after inserting the Ramdisk floppy.
> > 
> > Before I bother to retry with a serial console, is there any known
> > trick to get around this problem?  After all, the system booted
> > from the floppy and I read all the initial diagnostics from the
> > screen, so a VGA driver for this board must exist!
> 
> Try not using a RAMdisk floppy at all, via (assuming SCSI CD):
> 
>   >>> boot dva0 -file vmlinux.gz -flags "root=/dev/scd0"
> 

This should work well.

> Oh, and I think the generic kernel on RH 6.0 will not work correctly
> on the ES40. Try the generic-up-223.img on gatekeeper.dec.com at:
> 
> 	/pub/DEC/Linux-Alpha/Images/
> 

We also have an update that contains an SMP-capable kernel.  The updated
SMP boot image disk is available from the Red Hat Updates FTP site at:

ftp://updates.redhat.com/6.0/images/alpha/kernel-smp.img

Ken

> Good luck.
> 
> --Jay++
> 
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