Blank screen after selecting boot option in Gentoo (Just installed)

BuckRogers01 · 08-25-2005, 12:40 PM

Hi, I have just installed Gentoo. First I tried GenKernel to generate the kernel, configured GRUB, and booted fine. Just reinstalled Gentoo, compiling the kernel manually, configured GRUB, but when I boot from grub into gentoo, all I get is a blank screen (actually, no output from gfx card, as monitor shows an orange LED). Anyone have any ideas?

Any info would be great, Buck

Oh yeh, and does anyone know a way to autoselect the options in menuconfig that are needed by your hardware, such as drivers etc.. Bit like GenKernel, but not so heavyweight)

Cheers, Buck

syg00 · 08-26-2005, 09:04 PM

Mmmmm - if you want auto-magic, Gentoo probably ain't for you.
Blank screen is probably framebuffer issues - check the following to start with

Code:

# Graphics support
#
CONFIG_FB=y
CONFIG_FB_VESA=y
CONFIG_VIDEO_SELECT=y
#
# Console display driver support
#
CONFIG_VGA_CONSOLE=y
CONFIG_DUMMY_CONSOLE=y
CONFIG_FRAMEBUFFER_CONSOLE=y
CONFIG_PCI_CONSOLE=y
CONFIG_FONT_8x8=y
CONFIG_FONT_8x16=y

You also didn't need to re-install to move from genkernel (which I admit to never having used) to a "roll your own" kernel. Most things you can wangle without having to re-install.
Maybe you should wander over and have a look at forums.gentoo.org - plenty of good people/info there.

BuckRogers01 · 08-30-2005, 01:25 PM

Fixed it, I was specifying graphics resolution settings in kernel parameters, which, when I removed, cleared the error