Thanks,
I managed to get into single user mode by booting the rescue floppy made at
install
and typing 'linux 1' at the boot prompt. I had a look at 'rc2.d' ...
Eora:/etc/rc2.d# ls
...... ...... .....
...... S99gdm .....
...... ...... .....
but was unclear how to change the S99gdm symlink - and what to.
Tony Green suggested changing it to s99gdm, or norun99gdm to prevent it from
running.
Would 's99gdm > norun99gdm' work ?
And what then ?
I noted that Mutt and Lynx did not work in single user mode - is there a way
to get into runlevel three console mode ('init 3' ?)
The link you pointed me to suggests that getting a few more recent packages
specifically tuned
for 2.4.x kernels can be handled via 'apt-get dist-upgrade' .... I already
have
<deb http://people.debian.org/~bunk/debian/ potato main> in my
/etc/apt/sources.list
file.
That was partly the reason I want to install potato on the 40Gb drive (hde);
the last time I did
a 'dist-upgrade' I lost X and wanted some backup functionality on the system
in case it happened again.
When I tried to mount 'hde' I received the following
Eora:/etc# mount /mnt/hde
mount: can't find /mnt/hde in /etc/fstab or /etc/mtab
trying to mount it in /etc/fstab I received the message that 'fstab' was not
a directory.
I am not quite sure what I am missing here: it worked for me before.
It could be that it is bacause I am booting from 2.2r2 - the 2.2.19 kernel
which does not
support UDMA100 or Ultra100 TX2 controllers, unlike the 2.4.14 kernel on the
machine, which
is malfunctioning.
Lastly, this may not be a purely Debian problem as I tried a test boot from
a RH 7.1 disk
onto 'hde' and had the same result: it only recognised hda and hdb, asking
me where on the
(already installed) hdb drive I wished to put my swap partition.
Adam.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of
getadog
Sent: 08 January, 2002 09:53 PM
To: SLUG
Subject: Re: [SLUG] INIT: Id "1" respawning too fast .....
> On Mon, 2002-01-07 at 23:11, Adam F. Bogacki wrote:
> > "Starting Gnome Display Manager: gdm.
> > INIT: Id "1" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes.
That message from INIT might not be caused by gdm.
# Format:
# <id>:<runlevels>:<action>:<process>
1:2345:respawn:/sbin/getty 38400 tty1
I think this is the line from /etc/inittab thats causing
the respawn message, no idea why. When I have a problem
with X, gdm keeps respawning X causing the screen to flash.
I don't recall seeing the respawn message from init.
(gdm is respawning X, not init, gdm isn't started by init,
either)
So either something is seriously wrong with your console,
and getty can't open it, or its a normal message you get
when X plays up, I don't know.
Anyway...
Try booting into single user mode (ie linux 1 at the lilo prompt)
and do something like renaming the gdm symlink from S??gdm
to K??gdm in /etc/rc2.d/ or you can use update-rc.d to do it.
(I think update-rc.d is meant for packages to use, its a bit
weird)
Then, hopefully, you might be able to boot up normally and
login to the console and test why X isn't working. ie:
X -probeonly >/tmp/x.out 2>&1
less /tmp/x.out
> Debian woody 2.2r2 with kernel 2.4.14
As someone pointed out to the list not long ago, you need
to update some packages with non offical ones to run kernel
2.4 on debian 2.2.
http://lists.slug.org.au/archives/slug/2002/January/msg00300.html
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