Aside from I thought etch came with grub by default... It shouldn't matter which bootloader you use. Reading the description in the body of your message, it sounds like Xorg and the 'graphical boot' thing are set to some frequency or resolution which your monitor does not support. As J Hutchins mentioned. Try booting with the 'nofb' kernel option. Also, just try the option '3' and even if the "graphical boot" (init scripts) happen with a black screen, it should stop at a text terminal, from which you can fix Xorg.conf, and test with startx and [ctrl]+[alt]+[Backspace].
On Fri, Jul 11, 2008 at 15:02, David Nicol davidnicol@gmail.com wrote:
The situation is as follows:
The monitor displays POST, then LILO, then booting, but somewhere in the init process the monitor shuts off and remains off until it wakes up on shutdown -r now, at which point one can switch between virtual consoles and see the messages that root has echoed to for instance /dev/tty4.
Any ideas? It's not a wiring problem.
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