Re: booting without VGA

From: David Woodhouse (dwmw2@infradead.org)
Date: Mon Dec 18 2000 - 12:19:51 EST


abz@frogfoot.net said:
> I'm currently wokring on a embedded system for a camera device. It
> runs linux and we use the M-Systems DiskOnChip driver (a seperate
> module available from their site) for storage and as a boot device.

> The problem is if we boot with a kernel WITH vga support enabled, it
> boots fine. If we disable vga support it doesn't seem to boot. What
> makes it even stranger is that if we boot with that same non-vga
> kernel using an IDE disk as boot device it also boots fine.

You're using binary-only code. You shouldn't expect anyone on the l-k
mailing list to give your problem a second thought.

Does it work if you use the GPL'd DiskOnChip driver which is in
2.4.0-test12? You can also use it in 2.2 kernels.

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dwmw2

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