FC8/Linux boot with elilo: blank screen

[Mildred]

Hi,

 

I would like to boot linux from elilo (I don't want to use the BIOS emulation) but I have a problem.

 

Actually I tried to boot ArchLinux and Gentoo kernels with elilo, and it doesn't work at all. Today I just installed Fedora Core 8 on an external FireWire hard drive and I can boot on it using elilo.

 

That could be great, except that when I boot FC8, I get a white screen. I know it works because I hear the hard-drive functionning, and when I press the power button, the computer shuts down after a while. I waited long enough I think so X would be started, and I saw nothing. Nothing with the keystrokes Ctrl-Alt-Fn either

 

I heard that elilo don't switch to text mode before loading linux, but I'm using rEFIt that do the job (and I can see the elilo prompt), so I guess that is not the problem.

 

here is my elilo configuration:

 

chooser=simple
legacy-free
delay=50
prompt
default=fedora

image=linux/vmlinuz-2.6.23.1-42.fc8
       label=fedora
       description="Fedora Core 8"
       root="LABEL=Fedora"
       initrd=linux/initrd-2.6.23.1-42.fc8.img
       read-only
       append="rhgb quiet video=imacfb:macbook"

 

 

Do you have any idea on how to fix that issue ?

Thanks.

 

Mildred.