Urban Boquist wrote:
> Actually, I think your problem is most probably the same as 26007. The
> problem now, I think, is that the work-around Gavan committed in
> August works for some people but not for all (which he also noted in
> the commit message).
> 
> FWIW I also have an (older) VIA cpu machine that exhibits very similar
> symptoms; very early in boot the display goes either very weird, or
> completely black, or the text size gets very small. In all cases it
> hangs hard. Interestingly Gavan's change helped i bit in that it can
> now boot from floppy, but the same boot blocks booting from a CD still
> hangs... ;-(

The funny thing is also the 'randomness' of the hangs - if you play with 
the 'interactive boot-loader', you can get the weirdest 
color/resolution/size-combinations!

BTW: Yesterday, I installed 3-BETA (boot-tiny.fs) without any problems. 
Afterwards, you could boot - but only, if you pressed the <Enter>-Key 
before the count-down ended, otherwise, it just hung.

And now the most funny thing: Because it was 3 o'clock in the morning, I 
wanted to go to bed and I disconnected the machine from the monitor & 
keyboard and started it again in an other room with serial- & 
power-cable plugged-in only. Suddenly, the count-down problem was gone.


Kind regards,

Petar