At 11:20 20/11/06 +1300, you wrote:
For Linux, a distribution neutral procedure might be:
1) Check that everything is plugged in and turned on.
( You'd be surprised how many times that's the problem. )
2) Attempt to boot the machine.
If it does, but 'something strange' happens, examine the o/p from
the
dmesg command and what is in the last few lines of the /var/log/messages
file. There is a 99% chance that one of these will have some record of the
error.
2a) If it doesn't make a note of the last line on the screen.
3) Filesystems do fail. Booting with a LiveCD or bootable floppy and doing a
filesystem check with the fsck utility is always a good idea.
4) If the graphical display fails, there will usually be some record of
what's
gone wrong in the file /var/log/Xorg.0.log
5) Now is the time to bleat here. :-)
--
CS
For newbies, perhaps even simpler, like "2 Attempt to boot machine - If it
does, but 'something strange' happens, type dmesg and note the results,
which may help solve your problem. If not, you will need this information
for someone else to help you."
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