FC4 installer switching to garbled video after /sbin/loader

[tfreeman at intel.digichem.net]

On Mon, 24 Oct 2005, patrick wrote:

> I'm having a problem installing FC4 on a machine with an "Integrated
> VIA UniChrome AGP Graphics with MPEG-2 Accelerator" graphics adapter.
> 
> I start up with "linux text" to enter text-mode installation, the
> kernel starts and I see information about the hardware, and then just
> after /sbin/loader loads, the screen changes video mode into something
> that is all garbled. When the text installer starts, I can make out
> the colours, but cannot read any text as it is shaking and garbled.
> I've also tried booting up with vga=ask passed the kernel, picking a
> standard 80x25 vga mode.
> 
> Is there any way to have /sbin/loader NOT switch video modes? If it
> would just stay in the same mode as when the kernel starts up, I'd be
> fine.

If I recall correctly, the way I did it with a Via mini-itx machine was to 
issue a "nofb" on the boot command, and disable the framebuffer.

Hope I recall correctly, and that this helps.


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