breezy: boot screen hosed

Paul Sinnett paul.sinnett at gmail.com
Sun Aug 21 06:40:30 CDT 2005


On Fri, 2005-08-19 at 20:08 -0400, Alvin Thompson wrote:
> 1. uninstall usplash. it forces you to also remove ubuntu-desktop
> (temporary).
> 2. use this command:
>     sudo mkinitramfs -o /boot/initrd.img-2.6.12-7-386
> 3. reinstall ubuntu-desktop/usplash
> 4. remove those "vga=..." references in your /boot/grub/menu.lst

I've been playing around with this some more and I can get my vga
consoles back by installing the kernel-image-2.6.12-3-386 from the
Colony-2 CD.

This not only returned my consoles but seems to have made things more
stable again, there are less errors on boot, and the gnome panel doesn't
crash when I update with synaptic.

When I re-installed the older kernel I noticed that it also re-installed
a different mkinit... program. I tried running the mkinitramfs command
again on 12-3-386 and this resulted in the same problems as with
12-6-386 and 12-7-386. Re-installing kernel-image-2.6.12-3-386 fixed it
again (presumably because it recreates the boot image using a different
program?)

Could it be that these problems are caused by the switch to mkinitramfs?




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