On Monday 01 October 2001 20:34, Bradley D. Thornton wrote: > during the last stage of installation I chose Lilo graphics mode on boot > and the system appears to hang saying, " Starting X Font Server". > > I can ssh in just fine but even when I kill xfs it remains. I have no > virtual consoles or anything. I chose run-level three so I could startx > manually only when I wanted to use the machine in X. > > How do I get it back to text mode on boot and then ultimately end up at > a login prompt? > > Mandrake 8.0/x86.
I had the same thing happen a while back - I had updated my bios and the graphics setting had been changed. Once I changed that it completed installation (hehe... thats after I tried installing 7 times!). Maybe your bios settings need tweaking?? skinky -- Help Microsoft stamp out software piracy: give Linux to a friend today... _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
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