On Wed, 18 Mar 2009, Gerd Hoffmann wrote:
M A Young wrote:
> (with nomodeset I get no text characters during
> boot - only a cursor that moves as invisible characters are presumably
> printed to the screen
known issue with vga text mode (32bit only, 64bit works ok). vga window
at 0xc0000 isn't mapped correctly. Workaround: drive the card in gfx
mode. Either kernel mode setting or vesafb (use something like
vga=gfx-1024x768x16 on the *xen* kernel command line).
Unfortunately, both the kernel mode setting and using vesafb cause the X
session to crash on that particular machine. So it is useful to know, but
not that helpful in this particular case.
Michael Young