Jesus Arocho wrote:
> the reboot proceeds up to the point where the login is
> requested, at time which the screen begins to blink at twice per second. I
> tried to type and managed to enter 'root'; but cannot tell when the
> characters are recognized while at the password prompt.
X is failing. Start in single-user mode (with LILO, say "linux init=/bin/bash")
and edit /etc/inittab; change the default runlevel (first entry) from 5 to 3.
Then say "init 3" or restart to bring up more services, mount stuff etc, and
then use the text tools to reconfigure X. You can get the X server to write a
log (look in /var/log/ for anything obvious, it may do so by default) which will
help you to discover what's wrong. Your laptop may have an unsupported video
chipset, or you may be trying to use a resolution or colour depth not supported
by one of the chip, driver or screen hardware.
--
Never imagine yourself not to be otherwise than what it might
appear to others that what you were or might have been was not
otherwise than what you had been would have appeared to them
to be otherwise. -- The Duchess in Alice In Wonderland
