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On Sunday 19 October 2003 10:09, Cameron Nikitiuk wrote:
> Everything installed ok (after 2 hours) but when it came to my first boot,
> I choose graphical booter instead of text. Now all I get is a flashing
> screen with what appears to be a mixed up image (almost looks like the
> matrix) and an occasional CLI mentioning localhost login. I assume this is
> the text login for the machine but I never get a chance to type any thing
> in there to prove it.
that's because X is respawning. it should, after a certain number of times,
stop doing for a while to give you a chance to log in.. but there are other
ways around it..
> I have tried Ctrl+C and Ctrl+Q and the enter key as
> suggested in the book to kill the process, but no luck. I would assume
> that this is all happening because I only have 2 MB of graphic memory and
> it is choking on the graphical login.
yes, sounds like your X configuration is messed up.
> Can't think of how to change it as I
> cannot even get into the machine yet. Any suggestions?
at the LILO: prompt at bootup enter:
linux 3
this will drop you into runlevel 3 which is a non-graphical (but multiuser,
networked) mode. from there open up /etc/inittab and change the line that
looks like:
id:5:initdefault:
to:
id:3:initdefault:
save, and reboot to test.
> Second problem is that I am not able to boot up with out the floppy. I
> made a bootdisk using LILO as the boot manager and I think it put the boot
> image on dev/hda2.
odd place for it... you should just put LILO on the MBR for easy booting...
> If I recall my *NIX file architecture correctly hda0
> would be my first partition (/), hda1 my second (/boot)
> and that hda2 is likely my floppy.
no, /dev/fd0 will be your floppy.. /dev/hda2 will be the second partition on
the first disk on the first IDE controller. and there is no /dev/hda0, just
/dev/hda which is the whole disk.
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Aaron J. Seigo
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