FWIW, I am having the same trouble. Have you had any luck on this front? I also know that my VGA Text console is enabled, and there is only a hiccup of disk activity after 'Booting Linux'. Anyone want to share their working 2.5.59 .config? Many options I tried failed to build, including vesafb and atyfb, but it seems like the basic VGA text console should work - maybe it's something later on. I checked the pages recommended by another poster, but all that I can tell is that it is hanging during this stage: <- snip -> Uncompressing Linux... Ok. Booting the kernel. The i386-specific setup.S code has now completed its job and it jumps to 0x00010000 (or 0x00100000) to start the generic Linux kernel code. .... This runs linux/arch/i386/head.S which in turn jumps to start_kernel(void) in linux/init/main.c where the interrupts are redefined. linux/kernel/module.c then loads the drivers for the console and pci bus. <- snip -> so, assuming that another unselected option elsewhere isn't necessary for "VGA Text Console" to work, perhaps it's an issue with the PCI bus? Perhaps something with smp? I'll try a non-smp kernel and see? What sort of hardware are you running? I'm on a dual coppermine 866 / Tyan Tiger 230T. It's got a VIA Apollo PRO 133T chipset, 1024MB of ECC SDRAM, and a GeForce Ti4200. AGP card lspci says: 00:00.0 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C693A/694x [Apollo PRO133x] (rev c4) 00:01.0 PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C598/694x [Apollo MVP3/Pro133x AGP] 00:07.0 ISA bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C686 [Apollo Super South] (rev 40) 00:07.1 IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc. Bus Master IDE (rev 06) 00:07.4 Bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C686 [Apollo Super ACPI] (rev 40) 00:09.0 SCSI storage controller: Adaptec AHA-2940U2/U2W 00:0b.0 Multimedia audio controller: Creative Labs SB Live! EMU10k1 (rev 04) 00:0b.1 Input device controller: Creative Labs SB Live! MIDI/Game Port (rev 01) 00:0c.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corp. 82557/8/9 [Ethernet Pro 100] (rev 0c) 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation: Unknown device 0281 (rev a1)On Tue, 2003-01-28 at 06:59, dballester@kernpharma.com wrote: > Hi Jeremy: > Thanks for the tip. but I'had certified that the VGA text console > support is enabled. Also, no disk activity after the booting kernel > message. Only the blinking cursor seems to be active ;). > > Thanks again -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/
