On Tue, Mar 14, 2006 at 06:53:21PM +0100, Alexander Baldeck wrote: > Sven Luther wrote: > >On Tue, Mar 14, 2006 at 09:30:29AM -0800, Jason Self wrote: > > > >>Perhaps it's the monitor? Have you tried using it with another machine? > >> > >>On 3/14/06, Maes, Roel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> > >>>Dear sir, > >>> > >>>My company just bought a second hand IBM RS/6000 F50 server. > >>>When i try to boot it, onfortunately, the screen remains blank. > >>>I removed the VGA card, en installed an other one, but still, blank > >>>screen. > >>>(no input signal detected) > >>> > > > >Please connect a serial cable, and try netbooting it through the serial > >console (console=ttyS0,9600n8 usually), and post the result of the serial > >log > >if it doesn't work for you. > > > >Friendly, > > > >Sven Luther > If your card is not supported, you may want to try passing: > > video=ofonly
IBM rs6k chrp boxes boot into vga text mode, so this shoulde be no issue. > in the append line to the kernel. It should then use the already > initialized screen from OpenFirmware. > > If your card has a DVI along with a regular DSUB15 VGA output, make sure > that the machine does not detect the wrong output. This happend to me > with a ATI Radeon 9200SE PCI MacEdition, my 43p Model 150 randomly chose > one on boot time but never probed both properly. The card in question is probably either a matrox or sis or something such graphic card, or a special IBM not supported by X nor fbdev one. > Another card that works, is a Rage128 PCI usually found in older B&W G3 > Powermacs. > > In any case, I second Sven's suggestion to use a serial console as it is > probably the most reliable solution. Indeed. Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
