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braulio
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 Posted: Mon Jul 10, 2006 1:23 am Post subject: startup troubles |
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| Hi, i'm a gentoo new user and having troubles when it boot. After statong all services ok, when it has to start the X interface my monitor goes blank, what could happend? The pc doen't answer either. Hope somebody could help me. Thanks. Sorry about my poor english |
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energyman76b
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| Posted: Mon Jul 10, 2006 1:44 am Post subject: |
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Hi,
there is a lot of stuff that could happen.
You can try to hit 'i' while booting - several times, and don't led xdm start.
Or you can boot into single-user mode (at the grub-prompt hit 'e' than add boot=/bin/bash to your boot command, hit enter, hit b) and remove xdm from /etc/runlevels/default. It is a symlink, that is created by rc-update, so you can remove it safely.
Does your box boot ok, without X starting?
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braulio
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| Posted: Mon Jul 10, 2006 3:11 am Post subject: |
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I'm using lilo and all this thing happened after i install win 2003 server. i'didn't change a thing. Gentoo boots ok but when it has to star X the monitor goes blank. i could ony reboot. Hoy may I boot witout the graphic mode?
Before i install win, gentoo works fine. |
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energyman76b
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| braulio wrote: | I'm using lilo and all this thing happened after i install win 2003 server. i'didn't change a thing. Gentoo boots ok but when it has to star X the monitor goes blank. i could ony reboot. Hoy may I boot witout the graphic mode?
Before i install win, gentoo works fine. |
yeah, don't use lilo.
Grub is much, much better. Really. why lilo?
And as I said: hit I to get in the interactive mode, so X does not start up. If that does not work: boot from livecd, remove the xdm-symlink from /etc/runlevels/default.
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at240
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Strictly speaking, the choice of bootloader and installation of the other OS shouldn't (in theory) cause the problem you're seeing---assuming things are what they seem. How are you starting X? Via xdm? In that case, boot from a liveCD, chroot, and then:
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If the system then boots fine, then we'll need to know more about your setup: can you post details of your system, your xorgconf, and any interesting bits of your X log (in /var/log/Xorg.0.log)? |
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nsilva
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| Posted: Wed Jul 12, 2006 10:13 pm Post subject: |
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Are you sure that Xorg is correctly configured?
It sounds to me like a xorg.conf problem
Take a look again to:
http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/xorg-config.xml
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