[Wylug-help] Various distros

[James Holden]

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Anne Wilson wrote:
| I've just built a box mainly from scavenged parts, but with an ASRock
| K7VT2 mobo.  It didn't need to be state-of-the-art - in fact it
| shouldn't be, to use the rest of the bits.  Anyway, the goal was to
| have a box on which I could experiment - install any distros that
| people talked about - try them.  My first efforts, however, have me
| somewhat baffled.
|
| Knoppix, SuSE LiveEval and MEPIS all started, but a few seconds in (I
| just quickly saw 'initrd' on one of them) then all the lights on the
| monitor started blinking, and that was that.
|
[snip]

Might be something to do with framebuffer support.

Try booting with 'vgalo' as a boot option. This will turn off the kernel
framebuffer console and just use plain old 80x85 text mode.

James

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