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From: Graham Murray <graham@gmurray.org.uk>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo Install Issue
Date: Tue, 11 Oct 2011 06:55:53 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <877h4c9imu.fsf@newton.gmurray.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4E93504A.8090402@gmail.com> (CJoeB's message of "Mon, 10 Oct 2011 16:06:34 -0400")

CJoeB <colleen.beamer@gmail.com> writes:

> I got the boot menu, the boot process seemed
> to be okay, but when I got to the point where I assumed I should get a
> command prompt to finish up, all I got was a weird screen that was half
> black and half fuzzy with a bunch of colours (sorry, I can describe this
> any better).  I tried recompiling the kernel thinking it was a problem
> that I had created during the initial compilation, but that ended with
> the same result.

That sounds as though the kernel framebuffer is setting the graphics
card to a mode (resolution, refresh rate etc) that the monitor does not
support. 



      parent reply	other threads:[~2011-10-11  5:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-10-10 20:06 [gentoo-user] Gentoo Install Issue CJoeB
2011-10-10 20:17 ` Michael Mol
2011-10-10 20:31   ` CJoeB
2011-10-10 20:35     ` Michael Mol
2011-10-10 20:35     ` Mark Knecht
2011-10-10 20:43     ` David Abbott
2011-10-15 20:07       ` CJoeB
2011-10-15 20:21         ` Michael Schreckenbauer
2011-10-15 22:44           ` CJoeB
2011-10-16 12:06             ` James Broadhead
2011-10-16 14:58               ` CJoeB
2011-10-16 20:14                 ` Dale
2011-10-16 20:19                   ` Alan McKinnon
2011-10-16 21:09                     ` CJoeB
2011-10-17  3:02                       ` Dale
2011-10-16 21:22                     ` Neil Bothwick
2011-10-16 21:33                       ` Alan McKinnon
2011-10-16 21:56                       ` CJoeB
2011-10-16 22:17                         ` Mick
2011-10-17  0:22                     ` CJoeB
2011-10-17  0:38                       ` Adam Carter
2011-10-17  1:46                         ` CJoeB
2011-10-17  2:01                           ` Andrey Moshbear
2011-10-17  2:06                             ` Adam Carter
2011-10-17  3:10                               ` Andrey Moshbear
2011-10-10 21:05     ` Alan Mackenzie
2011-10-10 21:30       ` CJoeB
2011-10-10 20:20 ` Mark Knecht
2011-10-10 20:36 ` Mick
2011-10-11  5:55 ` Graham Murray [this message]

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