Bug 98596 – Installation fails on boot with SiS630

Bug 98596 - Installation fails on boot with SiS630

Summary:	Installation fails on boot with SiS630

Status:	CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE

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Product:	Red Hat Linux
Classification:	Retired
Component:	installer (Show other bugs)
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Version:	9
Hardware:	i386 Linux

Priority	medium Severity medium
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Assigned To:	Jeremy Katz
QA Contact:	Brock Organ
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Duplicates:	98597 (view as bug list)
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Reported:	2003-07-04 08:45 EDT by Martin Janser
Modified:	2007-04-18 12:55 EDT (History)
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Last Closed:	2004-10-04 23:15:55 EDT
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Description Martin Janser 2003-07-04 08:45:21 EDT

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User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20021003

Description of problem:
After booting from the Redhat Linux 9 CD and pressing [Enter] on my notebook,
the screen displays just some colors. If I try to change the console, the colors
appear there as well.

Adding parameters like "noprobe" or "lowres" didn't help.

The notebook has a SiS630 graphics card.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):


How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Boot from CD
2. Start the installation
    

Actual Results:  The screen fills with colors.

Expected Results:  The installation should start.

Additional info:

I installed Redhat on other machines from the same CD's.
Redhat Linux 8.0 works fine on my notebook, but not the new version!

Comment 1 Jeremy Katz 2003-07-09 01:19:37 EDT

*** Bug 98597 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 2 Jeremy Katz 2003-07-09 01:20:41 EDT

Does 'nofb' help?

Comment 3 Martin Janser 2003-07-09 11:13:35 EDT

Yes, that help! Great!
Thanks a lot!

But what does "nofb" do? And why couldn't I find it anywhere?

Comment 4 Michael Fulbright 2003-07-14 12:32:19 EDT

Sorry, try

linux nofb text

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