Hey guys, I have a little problem that the standard kernel doesn't have with booting and I would like so advice on what might be wrong.

The problem I am having with the framebuffer enabled (vesafb) when lilo says Loading Linux...... then it will blank out (no matter what rez i put it in) for 5-10 secs then I will get test on the screen, is there anyway I can fix this? what do you guys think it might be causing this?
I have tryed the following kernel options Vesa, no frame buffer and nVidia one (it made sense to try because of card i was using) but all accept having no frame buffer has that long dely.
If it helps my kernel is SMP, PCI-E, and alot of other stuff built into it, am I missing something that is so obvious or is there some magical memo I didnt get?

Any ideas?

tried installing slack 11.0 yet? i also had the same problem with the 2.4 kernel in 10.2 (even with the 2.6 selfcompiled)

but slack 11 with the huge26 kernel is working fine here (wich surprised me since i have the ati x700 (bad support)) at all resolutions

ya might wanna try that