Whyld-Chyld wrote:
> On Wed, 03 Dec 2003 23:57:11 +0000, Tommy Li wrote:
>
>
>>Hello,
>>
>>I just compiled the latest gentoo-sources kernel (2.4.22-r1), but it
>>won't boot. I prepared my system, including lilo, perfectly.
>>
>>When it boots - it will show lilo, and after selecting the new kernel,
>>it will change resolutions, and just show a black screen. Normally, it
>>will start booting, but not in this case.
>>
>>Any ideas why?
>
> Sounds like missing video support. Try changing your lilo.conf to
> vga=normal to get the default console. You can use the live cd to boot and
> chroot into the new system modify lilo.conf and install it then reboot.
> After your into the new system see if you enabled framebuffer support in
> the kernel.

Yeah - I did that - and it still hangs. The kernel does seem to start
loading though...

The last three messages are:
Calibrating APIC timer...
CPU Clock speed is 1600.00Mhz
Host Bus Clock speed is 0.00Mhz
Cpu: 0, clocks: 0, slice: 0

I am using pretty much the exact same processor settings as my old
kernel, which is fine (I am running on it right now.).

Any ideas?

--
Tommy C. Li