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Date:      Mon, 09 Dec 1996 14:15:04 -0800
From:      Julian Elischer <julian@whistle.com>
To:        Joerg Wunsch <joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de>
Cc:        Peter Brevik <peterb@ludd.luth.se>, FreeBSD bugs list <freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: Bootmenu goes all black..
Message-ID:  <32AC8F68.167EB0E7@whistle.com>
References:  <199612090858.JAA22066@uriah.heep.sax.de>

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J Wunsch wrote:
> 
> As Peter Brevik wrote:
> 
> > When the message 'running sysinstall as init' is displayed the screen goes all
> > black. And nothing more happens.. :( However it doesn't halt. So I can do a
> > "scrollback" and see the hardware check results.
> 
> Can you see sysinstall's hardware probe messages on the second screen
> (Alt-F2)?
> 
>
My experience is that if you boot with -c and disable ALL the devices
not
needed for the install, the install screen will then appear..
something else interferes with some graphics cards during probe.



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