Re: [gentoo-user] Boot stalls after install of 2005.1

[Holly Bostick <motub@planet.nl>]

Marcel Romijn schreef:
>  
> 
> I assumed that even though the kernel has framebuffer support built in,
> it won't use it if it is not configured as kernel parameter in
> grub.conf.
> Maybe that was a wrong assumption?

Yes, it was. The settings in grub.conf are supposed to override the
kernel settings. But if the framebuffer is set in the kernel, naturally
the kernel is going to start the framebuffer. It is, after all, the
kernel, and the kernel is king of the hill.

If you don't want a framebuffer, remove framebuffer support from your
kernel config.

Unless there's a setting in grub.conf to disable the
previously-initialized framebuffer. If there was, you could use that,
but I don't even know if such a setting exists, and seems like extra
work in any case (enabling the framebuffer just to disable it with an
override that may or may not work).

Hope this helps,
Holly
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