Have you tried to add "nomodeset" to the grub boot command ? Example: kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.29.2-126.fc11.i586 ro root=/dev/VolGroup00/root rhgb quiet nomodeset
On Thu, 2009-05-14 at 09:35 -0700, Paul wrote: > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: [email protected] > > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Patrick > > O'Callaghan > > Sent: Wednesday, May 13, 2009 6:47 PM > > To: [email protected] > > Subject: Re: Can't boot! > > > > On Wed, 2009-05-13 at 21:25 -0400, William M. Quarles wrote: > > > S P Arif Sahari Wibowo wrote: > > > > On Wed, 13 May 2009, William M. Quarles wrote: > > > >> The computer seems to "die" right about when X is about to start. > > > > > > > > Can you try <ctrl><alt><F1> (and F2, F3, ...) to see of console > > > > login is on? > > > > > > > OK, this PC is playing mean tricks on me. The past 10 times > > I've tried > > > to boot it, the boot has failed, and also, the keyboard stops > > > responding (so <Ctrl><Alt><anything> doesn't work). This thing is > > > behaving very inconsistently, because it just did a successful boot > > > and I was able to log in. > > > > I'd say do a thorough memory check. The brief check done by a > > BIOS at boot time is not exhaustive enough and sporadic > > memory errors can cause all kinds of random woe. I recently > > pulled two 1GB sticks from my machine because memtest86+ > > found problems (actually I think the problems are with the > > motherboard slots rather the chips, but it amounts to the > > same thing). The machine lost half its RAM but now it works > > flawlessly. > > > > http://www.memtest.org > > > > poc > > Are you by chance using some sort of nForce motherboard and DDR2 RAM? A lot > of them simply don't push enough juice to the RAM to support 4 sticks > without fiddling with the BIOS settings. Most often, reducing the RAM speed > (i.e.: from 1066MHz to 800MHz in my case) and increasing the voltage being > sent to the RAM slots does the trick. > > - Paul >
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