On Friday 03 Jan 2003 3:54 am, Russ wrote: > HI Anne, > > Thank you for responding to this post. Sorry for the delay in responding. > It sort of slipped through the cracks (long story, I won't bore you with > the facts). Anyway, I checked that file and it did say "5" on that line. I > did know about the problem with exiting without saving so that wasn't the > problem either. > > It did work in grub mode but I like eye candy (KDE vs GNOME? I was all for > gnome till kde3 - no contest now) so I refused to just accept the > situation. I did figure it out though. Here is the answer in case someone > else has a similar problem. > > The problem was Trends ChipAway virus detector in my BIOS. While in GRUB > mode the boot process slipped right though without a hitch. When in > Graphical mode Trend would pop up telling me there was a boot virus and I > had to tell it to continue before it would move on then it gave me the text > screen. When I disabled Trend it worked perfectly.
Glad you got it sorted. And glad you recognised the importance of passing on the knowledge :) Thanks Anne
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