FC4 installer switching to garbled video after /sbin/loader

[patrick]

I have also tried adding video=640x480-8 at 60 and variations of that.
According to my monitor, /sbin/loader is switching from 1024x768 at 60Hz
NP to 1064x768 at 60Hz NN. I'm actually not sure what NP or NN mean; it's
just what the monitor is reporting.

Patrick

On 10/24/05, patrick <gibblertron at gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm having a problem installing FC4 on a machine with an "Integrated
> VIA UniChrome AGP Graphics with MPEG-2 Accelerator" graphics adapter.
>
> I start up with "linux text" to enter text-mode installation, the
> kernel starts and I see information about the hardware, and then just
> after /sbin/loader loads, the screen changes video mode into something
> that is all garbled. When the text installer starts, I can make out
> the colours, but cannot read any text as it is shaking and garbled.
> I've also tried booting up with vga=ask passed the kernel, picking a
> standard 80x25 vga mode.
>
> Is there any way to have /sbin/loader NOT switch video modes? If it
> would just stay in the same mode as when the kernel starts up, I'd be
> fine.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Patrick
>