Very Computer

I start the computer, it boots the freesco-floppy and I get the freesco
startscreen. Now I can do a normal kernelboot or 'setup'. Whatever I
choose, after 'loading ramdisk...' my monitor switches off. Except for
this, the system seems to continue running and continue the booting. The
keyboard still works, the floppy keeps reacting after certain key
inputs. A startup-bootdisk from Mandrake 8.1 had excactly the same effect.

I thought maybe giving parameters like vga=ask would help, but before it
could even ask me for the right mode, the screen is already switched off.

Does somebody know what's going on here? What should I do?

To be complete, here's some extra info:
Pentium 75, on-board video, motherboard I TRITON (don't know type),
no harddisk (shouldn't matter, freesco can run from floppy only), 16MB
ram, 2 PCI NICS and off course standard floppy, no cdrom, SVGA monitor

Any help is very much appreciated, I'm totally stuck.

Thanks, Erik

Are you sure that that bootdisk has any console support built in? it sounds
like the console support has been disabled for that kernel.

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Quote:> Are you sure that that bootdisk has any console support built in? it sounds
> like the console support has been disabled for that kernel.

I did manage to load the kernel while I could see the messages displayed
with a bootfloppy from an old redhat 5.1 distro. The problem seems to
occur after loading the ramdisk into memory. I have no other option,
since I don't have a harddisk. I'm still stuck. Any more suggestions?

BTW, some more info: computer is an Olivetti M4 P75S.

Regards, Erik