CJoeB <colleen.bea...@gmail.com> writes: > I got the boot menu, the boot process seemed > to be okay, but when I got to the point where I assumed I should get a > command prompt to finish up, all I got was a weird screen that was half > black and half fuzzy with a bunch of colours (sorry, I can describe this > any better). I tried recompiling the kernel thinking it was a problem > that I had created during the initial compilation, but that ended with > the same result.
That sounds as though the kernel framebuffer is setting the graphics card to a mode (resolution, refresh rate etc) that the monitor does not support.