[Oberon] booting from bluebottle cd results in blackscreen

[urs.sonderegger at fhsg.ch]

Hello Patrik

I'm working with Christoph Stamm at the bootproblem with bluebottle.
The CD-ROM is SCSI with SCSI-ID 6. I've tried to get some trace-sesults
while booting.
Unfortunately without success. I tried many combinations of parameters, for
serial- and  screen-trace but
I never got any traces.
Perhaps we have a problem with the graphic-device.
We tried the same CD on a Compaq ARMADA E500 with 14" TFT-Screen and a IDE
CD-ROM. It hangs also.
But on my own Laptop a ARMADA E500 with 15" TFT and IDE CD-ROM it works
fine?!

Many thanks for your help and best regards

Urs Sonderegger


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This is strange indeed. Is the CD-ROM device IDE or SCSI? Can you use the
serial line trace, or otherwise boot setting the trace to the machine
screen
(text mode) and check where it hangs? (sorry, I don't remember the
TraceMode
parameters, and have no network access available at the moment).

-Patrik

----- Original Message -----
From: "Christoph Stamm" <stamm at inf.ethz.ch>
To: <oberon at inf.ethz.ch>
Sent: Monday, April 07, 2003 10:43 AM
Subject: [Oberon] booting from bluebottle cd results in blackscreen


> Hello
>
> I've written a bootable CD for bluebottle. Booting and installing works
> well on several PCs.
>
> Recently I've tried the same on a PC with SCSI disk and a motherboard
> embedded Adaptec AIC-2940U2/W disk controller and a 3DLabs Oxygen VX1
> graphics adapter. Unfortunately, booting ends with a black screen after
> the message "Oberon loading".
>
> Booting both Oberon0 and Native Oberon (beta version 31.7.00) works well
> on this system.
>
> Is it a disk controller or a graphics adapter problem or even something
> else?
>
> Christoph Stamm
>
>
>
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