Grub loading problems still ?

gentoobobby · Apprentice Joined: 17 Jan 2006 Posts: 293

Hi im getting some sort of erorr message when bootig into grub about 2 secounds after it starts to uncompress the kernel it freezes when it gets to here

esafb : VBE version 3.0
esafb: protocol mode interface info at c000:6b94
esafb: pmi set display start = c00c6bc2
esafb: Hardware supprots ddcs transfers
esafb: monitor limits vf = 76hz , hf = 81 khz clk = 1400 mhz
esafb: scrolling: redraw
esafb: cannot Reserve video memory at 0xf000eef3

Maybe i missed something and need to recompile my kernel again ?

if any one cold help me this would be great .

bushvin · Posted: Wed Feb 01, 2006 11:10 am Post subject:

Looks like Framebuffer issues to me.

Maybe you should start by removing framebuffer devices from your kernel.
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gentoobobby · Apprentice Joined: 17 Jan 2006 Posts: 293

hey cool how would i go about doing this and is frame buffeirng important ?

bushvin · Posted: Wed Feb 01, 2006 11:26 am Post subject:

I'm not the linux expert, but framebuffers are used by your graphic card to display graphics. (correct me if I'm wrong)

How would you go about to find them?
well comment out the following line in /usr/src/linux/.config:

gentoobobby · Apprentice Joined: 17 Jan 2006 Posts: 293

Ok i iwll have a go and get back to you thanks man

gentoobobby · Apprentice Joined: 17 Jan 2006 Posts: 293

I have turned of all the fb stuff in the config file now to recompile my kernel but if i use genkernel will this not go over my chnages to the

/usr/src/linux/.config ? ?? ?

bushvin · Posted: Wed Feb 01, 2006 12:16 pm Post subject:

good question. I don't know. I don't use genkernel.

What you can do is following:

gentoobobby · Apprentice Joined: 17 Jan 2006 Posts: 293

ok thanks mate i will try this appricate ur help

gentoobobby · Apprentice Joined: 17 Jan 2006 Posts: 293

this didnt seem to work :-(

bushvin · Posted: Wed Feb 01, 2006 3:25 pm Post subject:

could you post your .config file or pm it to me?
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gentoobobby · Apprentice Joined: 17 Jan 2006 Posts: 293

Is there away of me doing this without manually writing it ?

bushvin · Posted: Wed Feb 01, 2006 3:47 pm Post subject:

You could mount your windows (NTFS won't work! only fat32)drive when booting the Gentoo LiveCD...

gentoobobby · Apprentice Joined: 17 Jan 2006 Posts: 293

ok i will give this ago but think i will fail terribly lol i have only got ntfs drive