[Fedora-xen] Re: [fedora-virt] Re: Dom0 kernels

Pasi Kärkkäinen pasik at iki.fi
Sun Mar 22 11:54:32 UTC 2009


On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 10:02:52AM +0100, Gerd Hoffmann wrote:
> M A Young wrote:
> > (with nomodeset I get no text characters during
> > boot - only a cursor that moves as invisible characters are presumably
> > printed to the screen
> 
> known issue with vga text mode (32bit only, 64bit works ok).  vga window
> at 0xc0000 isn't mapped correctly.  Workaround: drive the card in gfx
> mode.  Either kernel mode setting or vesafb (use something like
> vga=gfx-1024x768x16 on the *xen* kernel command line).
> 

So the reason for this issue is known.. any patches available? 

-- Pasi




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