Matt's asked some good questions about the bootloader, but that won't help. Debian is booting, it's only failing once gdm loads. This may be either a true crash or a driver issue or an X configuration issue.
crzyjw, boot Debian in single user mode (add 'single' to the end of the line). Make sure it boots this way & gives you an interactive root prompt. Remove any 'quiet' or 'splash' options you may have so kernel issues may become apparent. Look in /var/log for any X.* logs that may give some insight to your issue. On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 2:57 PM, Matthew Dey <[email protected]>wrote: > crzyjw, > > As a point of reference could you post your lilo.conf? In addition could > you possibly try booting up debian without gdm to be sure that it is not > something that is wrong with debian before Xorg comes up? My suspicion is > that debian requires an argument or two for the kernel at boot time to > correctly boot up. Also it might be that debian did not correctly detect > your hardware at install time and still is unable to. > > A bit of advise, I've found that the easiest way to get dual boot is to > install a boot loader to the MBR of the first partition and to the > superblock of the second partition. Then all I do is have grub/lilo chain > load the second partition from the first. This is pretty easy to setup at > install-time and doesn't cause either os to automagically overwrite > grub/lilo entries after a kernel update. > > Regards, > Matt > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Linux Users > Group. > To post a message, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe, send email to [email protected] > For more options, visit our group at > http://groups.google.com/group/linuxusersgroup > -- Daniel -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Linux Users Group. To post a message, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit our group at http://groups.google.com/group/linuxusersgroup
