On 04/25/2012 10:32 PM, Frank Griffin wrote:
On 04/25/2012 06:51 PM, imnotpc wrote:
I don't really have a lot of clues to offer. After installation it
goes through the boot sequence and fails with either a blank screen
for the default ATI driver, or a multi-color pixelated screen with
the vesa driver. I've never seen the vesa driver lock up before.
If you boot a rescue CD, mount the root partition, change the runlevel
in /etc/inittab to 3 rather than 5, and reboot, do you get to a login
prompt with no problem ?
No, it locks up with a blank screen. The last line I could read before
it went blank was "Starting speech dispatcher..."
If I boot using safe mode the system doesn't lock, but doesn't give me a
command prompt either. The last message is "Failed to issue method call:
Transaction is destructive."
At times I've managed to get to the command line and discovered that
in addition the networking won't work, either wired or wireless. I'd
gladly submit a bug report or comment on an existing one, but I don't
know where to start on this one.
From either a tty command line or a root terminal window, run
drakconnect. See whether the NetworkManager box is checked in the
options panel for the wired interface. If it is, uncheck it, complete
drakconnect and run "service networkmanager stop" and "systemctl
disable NetworkManager.service". Then reboot and see if it comes up.
Same for wireless.
If your NICs worked under mga1, NM is most likely the culprit.
I install over the network so the wired NIC is working during
installation. The wireless NICs work as well but they usually need
firmware installed first. I'll take a look at this once I can reliably
get that far. Thanks for the help.
