Problem with no display on 10.04 beta2 server

[Michael Waltz]

I've noticed when removing quiet, but leaving splash, you get double 
kernel messages. The first set are normal text output and then again 
when plymouth takes over and re-displays them, but this time a lot slower.

Anyone else run across this?

The LVM bug is interesting, as our default preseed creates 5 LVM volumes 
  for the rootfs. Could explain why a lot of my installs and boots are 
failing.

Micheal

James Gray wrote:
> On 11/04/2010, at 8:06 PM, Alvin wrote:
> 
>> On Sunday 11 April 2010 11:59:58 James Gray wrote:
>>> On 11/04/2010, at 7:15 PM, Janåke Rönnblom wrote:
>>>> I have an IBM 3550 server where I have installed the 10.04 beta2 server
>>>> on. On reboot after the BIOS messages all I get is a blinking cursor and
>>>> then it disappears. If I try ALT+F1/F2, ENTER and so nothing happens no
>>>> login prompt nothing!
>>>>
>>>> Connecting through ssh works but I fear the day when I need to
>>>> troubleshoot the server at the console...
>>>>
>>>> -J
>>> What happens if you ssh in, edit /boot/grub/menu.lst and modify the default
>>> kernel parameters to remove "quiet splash" (or if that fails, try include
>>> "text"), then reboot.  See if that makes any difference to the result. 
>>> Might be telling grandma how to suck eggs, but this little trick has
>>> revealed volumes in the past.  I know it should "Just Work" but this might
>>> help isolate the fault.  My initial guess is there is something a bit
>>> henky with the frame buffer support.
>> In the past, it might have, but I tried this on a desktop edition of Lucid 
>> beta and it was a bad idea. Boot halted (because of the bug where you can't 
>> mount more than 4 lvm volumes.)
>>
>> Without splash and quiet, you can see the messages, but not the buttons you 
>> have to press to skip mounting the volume.
> 
> But if it gets as far as mounting the file systems, surely it's well into the boot process at that stage...unless you have 4 LVM volumes for the root file system (??).  Not 100% sure I'm following you - booting with the "quiet splash" you see nothing, and other than that, boots fine.  So how would removing them to see the boot process cause the filesystem mounts to fail??
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> James
> 

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Micheal Waltz
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