On 7/11/07, Martin Marques <martin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Dave Cross escribió: > > That's when it went wrong. The boot sequence got as far as starting X > when it hung. Further investigation shows that I can boot into > runlevel 3, but it hangs when I run startx. There don't seem to be any > error logs written. > > During the boot sequence I see a couple of error messages that mention > not being able to access /dev/hda5. That bothers me as I thought that > all disk devices were /dev/sdaX in F7. Ahhh?!?! sdaX are SCSI or SATA disks. IDE disks should still be hdaX. What do you have in hda5? See /etc/fstab.
Hmm... when I boot into runlevel 3, all of the disks (and they're all IDE disks) are listed as /dev/sdaX. I'm pretty sure that's a major change I've read about the F7 kernel.
> If it helps, the laptop is a Philips X51[1]. But I recently learnt > that it's actually a rebadged Twinhead D12[2]. Maybe the problem is related to the partition that is giving you problems. Else, I would try with the vesa driver (crappy, but it almost always works).
Ok. How would I try that? Dave...
