From: wpwood@blair.austin.ibm.com Subject: Loading Linux Date: 16 Nov 1992 18:41:39 GMT
I recently downloaded the boot and root images from tsx-11, rawrote them
onto high-density floppies and tried to boot Linux on my PC. The PC
boots, I get a 'Loading...' message, and then the screen goes blank. If
I wait till the disk stops rotating and hit <enter>, the drive will
start moving again, as if there was a prompt on the screen, but the
graphics card is not displaying anything.
The system I am using is a 386DX-40 from Quantex Microsystems.
The CPU is the AMD 40MHz 386DX chip. The only non-standard pience of
hardware I have is that the SVGA card is based on the NCR 77C22 (think
that's right) chip.
So, does anyone else have a graphics card based on this chip, or
does anyone have suggestions about what I may be doing wrong? The NCR
card is usable as a vga card with no special drivers under MS-DOS, but I
still have to suspect the card as being the problem.
Also, I don't suppose that anyone is working on a driver for X
for that card are they? I'm finding that I should probably have paid
extra to get one of the other cards Quantex offered instead of just get-
ting the 'default' one.
Anyway, any help would be greatly appreciated.