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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