On Sat, 2003-08-09 at 14:25, Miark wrote: > I installed Direct Connect. During installation it said something > about Mesa (graphics) and I just knew I would suffer because of it. > > Now when I boot, it simply never gets to the graphical login, and > does not display a console login either. Instead I get the string > of boot status messages, and then it stops. The computer is booted > and running, but I am not logged in, and have no way to login. > (Even the Alt-F2, etc gives me nothing to login with.) > > I booted to failsafe, re-installed NVidia's proprietary drivers. > I ran XFdrake. Test is successful, but I still can not boot with a login. > > Now I _can_ boot to failsafe, and do a init 5. (That's why it's possible > for me to compose this message.) What the hell kind of sense does that > make? How do I fix this? > > Miark
Boot to failsafe; then double check the /etc/lilo.conf and also edit the /etc/inittab for default of runlevel 3; re-run lilo; reboot - you SHOULD be at the console login; if not, boot back to failsafe, edit the /etc/lilo.conf and tell vga=1; re-run lilo, reboot again. Once you've got it sorted out in runlevel 3, you can change the inittab to runlevel 5 and then go back to doing your pr0n surfing. -- Sat Aug 9 16:30:00 EST 2003 16:30:00 up 5 days, 20:18, 1 user, load average: 1.42, 1.47, 1.19 ----------------------------------------------------------------- | __ __ |kuhn media australia | | /-oo /| |'-. |http://kma.0catch.com | | .\__/ || | | |================================| | _ / `._ \|_|_.-' |stephen kuhn | | | / \__.`=._) (_ | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | ----------------------------------------------------------------- linux user #:267497 linux machine #:194239 * MDK 9.1+ & RH 9 Mandrake Linux Kernel 2.4.21-11mdk Cooker for i586 ----------------------------------------------------------------- * This message was composed on a 100% Microsoft free computer * 'On this point we want to be perfectly clear: socialism has nothing to do with equalizing. Socialism cannot ensure conditions of life and consumption in accordance with the principle "From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs." This will be under communism. Socialism has a different criterion for distributing social benefits: "From each according to his ability, to each according to his work."' -- Mikhail Gorbachev, _Perestroika_
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