I have a Mono VGA display connected to my system. It is old and can only handle actual VGA resolutions and display rates, no SuperVGA support. (IE, only 640x480 interlaced.) When I boot the LiveCD the screen goes black. Everything still works as normal, which is to say I can hit return, or type linux ... etc, but I cannot see what I am typing. It would be best if the refresh rate were lower so that the boot display were visible, or better still, if the boot display were textual so that it would also work on systems with a serial console (there are a number of PC motherboards which support serial redirection of a text console.) Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Attach my old Mono VGA display to my PC 2. Insert LiveCD 3. Boot from CDROM. Actual Results: Screen goes black. Expected Results: Displayed the boot screen.
boot with "nofb" at prompt , press F2 for more options
This bug is NOT resolved. I never SEE a prompt. THAT is the bug. The problem here is not that after I load gentoo I don't see the prompt; That works JUST fine. The problem is that I never see the prompt from grub or what have you. Note that after I (blindly) type "gentoo doscsi" everything works fine, but if I didn't know that the boot prompt was there due to loading it in a vmware or through prior experience, I wouldn't know. And if there were an error while loading the boot loader, I wouldn't know that either. I didn't say that the kernel messages didn't show up, or that the install process was invisible. I said that the boot screen was not displayed.
Please test with the latest LiveCD and reopen this bug if the problem persists.
