On Thu, 2003-11-20 at 22:36, Keith G. Robertson-Turner wrote: --SNIP-- > For the moment, while you try to find a solution, turn off graphical > booting and login, like this: > > 1) ... Stick yarrow disc1 in the drive and reboot. > 2) ... Type "linux rescue" without the quotes at the boot prompt. > 3) ... Follow the prompts, don't activate networking, but allow it to > mount your linux partition. > 4) ... type "chroot /mnt/sysimage" (I'm working from memory here ... > someone correct me if I'm wrong), then type "vi /etc/grub.conf". To edit > in vi you start by hitting the "insert" key, stop editing by hitting the > "ESC" key, save the file by typing ":w<enter>" and quit by typing > ":q<enter>" So far, so good. > 5) ... Remove "rhgb" from the line that starts "kernel /boot...." Ah, well...the line will read something like: kernel /vmlinuz-2.4.22-1.2115.nptl ro root=LABEL=/ rhgb ...remove "rhgb" from the line (whether or not it is at the end of that line). > 6) ... Use vi again, to edit /etc/inittab and look for the line which > reads "id:5:initdefault:". Change the "5" to a "3". > 7) ... Reboot. You should now be able to boot (albeit without X). > > If you need a browser to research your problem (whilst not running in X) > just type "lynx www.google.com" and you'll get the lynx client. > > Now it's time to start playing with maybe recompiling the kernel, playing > with modprobe or downloading drivers off the Net. At the very least, I > would think you'd manage to get X up with a generic VGA driver. You might even try running these commands on that command line (as root) after rebooting from the previous steps: 1. mv /etc/X11/XF86Config /etc/X11/XF86Config.original 2. redhat-config-xfree86 You may be able to get an X configuration that will work this way. Good luck. -- Lamont Peterson <lamont@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Instructor Guru Labs <http://www.gurulabs.com/>
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