[BusyBox] Can't boot without graphic card

[Magnus Damm]

Hi,

I once helped a customer removing a vga controller on their hardware.
Certain versions of the Linux kernel did not like to boot without the
VGA controller, but efter several hours of testing I found out that
newer 2.4 kernels was better than old ones.

I don't remember the exact versions, though.

/ magnus

On Thu, 30 Jan 2003 15:13:59 +0100
"Oliver Friedrich" <oliver at familie-friedrich.de> wrote:

> Hi list,
> 
> i'm new to BusyBox (in fact i'm using it only via the ttylinux mini
> distribution) and i have a problem:
> 
> If i'm starting up the box with a graphic card installed all works fine, but
> in case i remove the vga adapter, the system reboots somewhere after the
> init scripts. I can't get a syslog or something else, because i'm running
> the system out of a ramdisk. Is there perhaps a known problem with a part of
> busybox? Perhaps with init?
> 
> I can see, that the first init scripts are running fine (without a vga
> adapter), because the LCDd prints a short message on the LCD, but than the
> system resets and starts again...
> 
> Any hints?
> 
> I'm using:
> Kernel 2.4.18 with devfs support (no aditional patches)
> devfs deamon to provide compatibility to the old /dev scheme
> ttylinux 2.7 (busybox 0.60.5 included)
> some additional libraries and binaries to use vdr, lirc and lcdproc
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> Oliver
> 
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