Re: 2.6.16-mm1 grub oddness

From: Mike Galbraith
Date: Sat Mar 25 2006 - 00:11:18 EST


On Fri, 2006-03-24 at 20:53 -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> Mike Galbraith <efault@xxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > On Fri, 2006-03-24 at 10:25 -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > > Mike Galbraith <efault@xxxxxx> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > Greetings,
> > > >
> > > > I'm seeing strange things with grub with this kernel. After my box has
> > > > been up for a while, and I reboot, selecting a kernel to restart, upon
> > > > reboot, I sometimes (fairly often) get a blank screen staring at me
> > > > though I see grub doing it's thing. Poking the power button results in
> > > > an immediate poweroff, not as if the kernel had panicked or whatnot very
> > > > early in boot. Very odd, and never before seen.
> > > >
> > >
> > > Do you mean that grub is actually proceeding as expected, just that the
> > > display is off? If so, does it ever come back on?
> >
> > No, the box just sits there and does nada.
> >
>
> Did you try disabling fbdev?
>

No, but I will.

-Mike

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