I tried this in 8.04 and immediately the screen went blank, then after several seconds I got verbose readings in the form of a boot or a shutdown, then an old Dos-screen came up with boot normally, dpkg - repair files, and two other lines. I chose boot normally and got the splash screen in a matter of seconds. The desktop took less than half the normal time load, and I had choose my wireless service again. 8.10 when I get home.
So, yeah. Maybe you do have a bug there. I'll test it on a fresh install of On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 11:50 AM, Robert Citek <[email protected]>wrote: > > I think this might be a bug, but I'm wondering if anyone else here can > confirm the same behaviour. > > Boot normal. > Open a terminal. > Type 'sudo init 1' > The screen stays at the flashy Ubuntu progress bar. > The only way to get out of this is to reboot with Ctrl+Alt+delete > > Workaround: edit ./menu.lst file and remove the "splash" option from > the kernel line. > > I've only tried this on 8.10. Anyone experience the same behaviour? > > Regards, > - Robert > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Central West End Linux Users Group (via Google Groups) Main page: http://www.cwelug.org To post: [email protected] To subscribe: [email protected] To unsubscribe: [email protected] More options: http://groups.google.com/group/cwelug -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
