No display on reboot after instalation

[rzacasperof]

Hi,
I've just finished installing gentoo for the first time and have run into a problem. When I rebooted the box after the install was complete I was presented with the grub bootloader + chose the gentoo install to boot. At this point a few lines of text scroll up the screen then the screen goes blank and thats it???

The machine continues to boot by the looks as the hard drive light flashes but I can't see anything

heres a few things about the system:
athlon xp 1700
256Mb Ram
2.6.9 kernel, used genkernal to compile

does anybody have any ideas on whats gone wrong? Thanks in advance.

[deadaim]

Post your /boot/grub/grub.conf and /etc/fstab and tell us if you configured anything extra into your kernel.

[rzacasperof]

here you go.

/etc/fstab:

# NOTE: If your BOOT partition is ReiserFS, add the notail option to opts.
/dev/hda1 /boot reiserfs noauto,noatime 1 1
/dev/hda3 / reiserfs noatime 0 0
/dev/hda2 none swap sw 0 0
/dev/hda5 /home reiserfs noatime 0 0
/dev/hda6 /var reiserfs noatime 0 0
/dev/cdroms/cdrom0 /mnt/cdrom auto noauto,user 0 0
/dev/cdroms/cdrom1 /mnt/cdrom1 auto noauto,user 0 0
/dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto noauto 0 0

# NOTE: The next line is critical for boot!
none /proc proc defaults 0 0

# glibc 2.2 and above expects tmpfs to be mounted at /dev/shm for
# POSIX shared memory (shm_open, shm_unlink).
# (tmpfs is a dynamically expandable/shrinkable ramdisk, and will
# use almost no memory if not populated with files)
# Adding the following line to /etc/fstab should take care of this:

none /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0

****************

/boot/grub/grub.conf
default 0
timeout 30
splashimage=(hd0,0)/grub/splash.xpm.gz

title=Gentoo Linux 2.6.9-gentoo-r1
root (hd0,0)
kernel /kernel-2.6.9-gentoo-r1 root=/dev/ram0 init=/linuxrc ramdisk=8192 real_root=/dev/hda3 video=vesafb
initrd /initrd-2.6.9-gentoo-r1

[rzacasperof]

oh yeah, no I didn't configure anything extra in the kernel, I did check to make sure reiserfs support was built in like the instalation guide states and it was already.