Any chance you might have chosen a graphical login ?
This usually takes sometime to start up, and gives you
blinks on the screen like you describe.
At lilo try linux 3 if this works.
Change /etc/inittab from
id:5:initdefault: to id:3:initdefault:
Faster that way....
Bye
Kaushik
P.S~~> The blinks are because of the X-server trying to choose the correct
resolution during startup..
From: Mandar Behere <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Thursday, July 20, 2000 11:05 AM
> Last week I have installed RH Linux 6.2 on AMD k6 II 500 machine.
>Till yesterday it was working fine. Yesterday I was trying out different
>configurations for resolutions for X-Windows. and after that I shutdown
>the machine as usual. But today morning when I started the machine, it
>gave me login promt for a while (1-2 secs) and then the monitor started
>blinking. It showed me all the initial messages without blinking. I
>tried to type the usename, but couldn't do it. So I pressed
>Ctrl+Alt+Del, and then the display was normal, showed me all shutdown
>messages without blinking. But again after bootup same thing.
> I tried booting the machine from floppy, but the floppy went for a
>toss, so couldn't get into. So next step I tried was to boot in single
>user mode (i.e. at LILO : Linux single). It worked perfectly there. I
>could execute commands from there. I made boot floppy in single user
>mode and tried to boot from floppy. But same thing repeated.
>
> Graphics card is Trident 3D Image 975. The machine works fine in
>windows NT. So I guess there is not a problem with the display card.
> What could be the problem ? any pointers ?
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