How old is your monitor and your video card? Sounds like a problem with the power saving code.
I googled, and here's a set of posts that might help you: http://www.neowin.net/forum/lofiversion/index.php/t616183.html
J.
On Fri, Jul 11, 2008 at 3:02 PM, David Nicol [email protected] 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.