Re: 2.5.69 doesn't boot

Martin Schlemmer (azarah@gentoo.org)
22 May 2003 07:28:00 +0200


On Thu, 2003-05-22 at 07:04, Dima Brodsky wrote:
> Hi,
>
> 2.5.69 won't boot on a:
>
> PIII 650, 512 Ram, 440 BX chipset (Asus board)
> GeForce 256 vga
> D-Link DFE-538TX (RealTek RTL8139) network card
> Tekram DC395U/UW/F DC315/U V1.41, 2002-06-21 scsi card for scanner
>
> compiled with
>
> gcc 3.2.3
> glibc 2.3.2
> modutils 2.4.22
>
> I get
>
> Uncompressing Linux ... Booting the kernel.
>
> and then nothing. Not sure what's wrong.
>
> My config file is below, any and all help would be greatly appreciated.
>

> #
> # Character devices
> #
> # CONFIG_VT is not set
>

Above is your problem. You need to enable that as well as:

CONFIG_VT_CONSOLE=y
CONFIG_HW_CONSOLE=y

Regards,

-- 
Martin Schlemmer

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