On February 8, 2005 12:44, Fernando Arturo G�mez Flores wrote: ... > It loaded all Linux, and led me to a > blue screen with the Mandrake logo. After that, it didn't happen anythig. > It actually does not freezes, because I can move my mouse, and if I press > the shut down button of my laptop, it sends the kill all signal and > finishes the system correctly. Moreover, if I press Ctl+Alt+Backspace it > restarts the machine. > > However, I never get to the logon screen. ...
Is that the blue screen where it says something like "Press Esc for details" above a progress bar? If so, press Esc when it first comes up, and it will show you details of the boot process, so you can see exactly where it is hanging. I recently built my own pc, with a Soyo SY-KT600 DRAGON Plus v.2.0 motherboard, and had similar problems. First it was hanging on the "Checking for new hardware" step. Never did determine exactly why, but I just booted into failsafe, and did a: chkconfig --del harddrake to disable the new hardware check. This check is unnecessary for 99 out of 100 boots anyway, and you can shave a few seconds off your boot time by disabling it. If you ever need it, you can always do a "chkconfig --add harddrake" to re-enable it. Then it hung again, this time trying to bring up my Ethernet. Turned out that that the built-in nic, a Via VT6102 [Rhine II 10/100], is one of those obscure ones that requires the following line to be added to /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0: MII_NOT_SUPPORTED=no (Nice double negative there!) I couldn't find any info on what exactly this means or why having the default of "yes" causes a hang, but it's been reported in the past with certain other nics. Again, I booted into failsafe, and used vi (a horribly primitive, ugly and painful editor, often referred to as the "evil" editor, but an essential command line survival tool) to edit the file. After that, it booted fine. So try to see what is causing the hang, then try a failsafe boot and see if you can fix it. Also, if it boots in failsafe, you can try the command: telinit 3 This will put it into multi-user mode, but command line only, no X. If it is the graphical configuration that's causing the hang, as Anne suspects, then this will work fine. If this fails, it's hanging on something else. And BTW, a "telinit 5" will take you into regular GUI mode. HTH -- Ron ronhd at users dot sourceforge dot net Opinions expressed here are all mine. "As you know, necessity is the mother of invention. I don't know who the father is. Remorse, I guess." - Red Green
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