On Mon, 23 Sep 2002 12:03:09 -0400 (EDT)
"Brian Jackson"
I just recently installed Suse 7.1 Pro onto a Toshiba Tecra 8000 laptop.
If I choose any of the 3 kernels listed: linux, linux_2.4 or suse, it goes through the normal startup procedures
"all report back with green 'done'". Then : A big fat blank screen!
I can hear the harddrive spin up and it blinks on occasion, but all I get is a blinking '_' in the upper left hand corner. No response from the keyboard, and no output is displayed.
Any thoughts? Besides: a different computer, newer OS(I have the 7.1 disks and I don't need much on these systems) ;-))
Thoughts? Yeah. Someone a little while back had some trouble with a monitor, and he fixed it by setting vga = normal instead of the framebuffer, in lilo.conf. Maybe your laptop can't switch from framebuffer to X? Maybe that, and make sure you are using an ascii login instead of the graphical one. Maybe your laptop isn't setup for X properly, and you have a graphical login set, then it just hangs. To be extra safe, edit your /boot/@boot.b to point to boot-text.b instead of boot-menu.b. Try to boot in the most basic way possible to a console prompt, then work on why X is fussy. -- use Perl; #powerful programmable prestidigitation