I was wondering what would be involved in making the "graphical boot" procedure more robust....
I was working with a variety of dual-head monitors trying to get two screens working, and managed to make a typo in the /etc/X11/xorg.conf file.
When the system froze up and needed to be rebooted, of course, I got the "Configuring kernel parameters:" message and then it hung.
Apparently it tries to start up an X server, fails, and then... well, that's all she wrote.
This doesn't seem very robust. Failing to start the X server shouldn't be a fatal error. At the very least, it should kick out an error message (like "Starting X server [ FAILED ]") and behave as if $GRAPHICAL=no... so that one can get into the system and repair the damage, then restart the X server.
So, as a result, I routinely set GRAPHICAL=no on all new installs... and will continue to until the boot process has this Achilles Heel removed.
Am I alone in my thinking? Doing a scan of various forums reveals that this is not an uncommon occurrence.
-Philip
