Re: [Linux-users] startup woes

2017-01-23 Thread Barry
Thank you for your reply, what a horrible suggestion. After googling I opened a second xterm and logged in no problem. mount showed that the correct ptn was mounted and df showed I have 7G available. I then tried startx which failed with error 1. Checking the log file showed this msg "(EE)

Re: [Linux-users] startup woes

2017-01-23 Thread Volker Kuhlmann
On Mon 23 Jan 2017 19:36:50 NZDT +1300, Barry wrote: > Hi All, the heading understates my problem - I can no longer boot my > desktop!!! Did anyone already overstate the requirement for giving useful fault descriptions? > to start any one of them but none work. All attempts to reinstate > boot

Re: [Linux-users] startup woes

2017-01-23 Thread Roger Searle
Sorry to hear :( Motherboard failure? Roger On 23/01/2017 7:36 p.m., Barry wrote: Hi All, the heading understates my problem - I can no longer boot my desktop!!! The setup is I have 2 hard drives, 1 with 6 ptns and the other with 8. Each drive has (or should have) 2 bootable ptns. I am