FC4 installer switching to garbled video after /sbin/loader

[patrick]

The "nofb" fixed the problem. Thanks!

On 10/24/05, tfreeman at intel.digichem.net <tfreeman at intel.digichem.net> wrote:
> On Mon, 24 Oct 2005, patrick 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.
>
> If I recall correctly, the way I did it with a Via mini-itx machine was to
> issue a "nofb" on the boot command, and disable the framebuffer.
>
> Hope I recall correctly, and that this helps.
>
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