At 2:52 AM -0400 6/21/05, Amadeus W. M. wrote: >The FC4 installation went flawlessly on an NCS laptop, and I was getting >ready to congratulate the FC4 team for the good job. > >Then it's when I got hit by the "grub hanging on stage2" bug. It's my >wife's laptop from work, and there has to be a dual boot with Xp. I boot >from rescue disk, /sbin/grub-install /dev/hda and I reboot. Except that >now it says Grub loading stage 1.5. It boots though. (Does anybody know >why the 1.5 now?) > >Anyway, that's nothing, I tell myself, I'm glad the fix was so easy. Let's >be positive and still say good things to the FC4 team. The vital >components work: X, network, sound, etc. so good job. Yea, I read about >the Ctrl-C not working at the console, but so what? As soon as I >log in, I update the system and all is well. Except that I can't log >out anymore. Yes, that's true: I always change the boot level to 3, and do >startx. Now when I want to log out (exit from X), I don't get back the >console prompt. Just a black screen. Both as user and as root. Looks like >X is not shutting down properly. Sound like a frequently-reported video problem. In X in runlevel 5, do the default terminals work, or are they blank also? (Ctl-Alt-F2, Ctl-Alt-F7 to get back.) ____________________________________________________________________ TonyN.:' <mailto:tonynelson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> ' <http://www.georgeanelson.com/>
