Screen goes blank during bootup.

[dexxster]

I just finished a Stage3 2004.3 install on a Dell Inspiron 8000. After selecting Gentoo from grub it begints to boot fine I see the Uncompressing Kerenel: Ok and it continues to boot up for another second or two, then the screen just goes blank. I've sene some posts that have had similar issues but nothing quite the same. I have framebuffer enabled in my kernel and I'm not using any splash screen or anything. I've tryed using vga=XYZ and no vga and both produce the same blank screen. I was wondering if it could of been somethng else I didn't enable during my kernel compile? But I can't think of what. The machine I believe still continues to bootup the screen stays blank indefinetly. Any ideas? Or idea how I could find out whats going wrong? Can I use the LiveCD and mount my / and check dmesg? I'm not quite sure how to go about dianosing this problem any links,tips,whatever would of great help.

Thanks in advance,
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[dexxster]

I've made sure I have VGA 16 support I have framebuffer support turned on and ACPI along w/all power management features turned off. I could try turning them all back on and I also have my kernel including support for VEOS i think it was it's the option right below VGA16 support, the kernel by the way is gentoo 2.6.10 hardened r3. I don't have Grsec or PaX configured currently and I don't know where else the problem could be since the screen goes black after uncompressing the kernel. Is there a way through the livecd and chroot i can check the kernel's bootup messages? I don't have syslog-ng really configured yet otherwise I'd just check my logs. Any ideas anyone?

Still trying,
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