I've done a clean install of Centos 5.5, largely using the default options. Those I changed were: * Changed to KDE Desktop * Added Samba and NFS4 to firewall * Changed NTP servers to those of my ISP
When Centos boots what I think is a progress bar shows no progress but eventually (probably about the right amount of time for booting the OS) the user login screen partially appears (username and box, time and name of machine, a flowing "tree" symbol), but the bottom of the screen does not appear to be completed. This login screen clears and redisplays several times.
Finally the screen locks with the time displayed in much exaggerated height (about a quarter of the screen height) and nothing more works.
At no point can I get to a text login screen (Ctrl-Alt-F1) so I can't even debug it!
Can anyone suggest what is wrong or how to overcome it?
On Sat, 2010-10-02 at 17:55 +0100, Peter Crighton wrote:
At no point can I get to a text login screen (Ctrl-Alt-F1) so I can't even debug it!
Can anyone suggest what is wrong or how to overcome it?
Boot in verbose mode to runlevel 3 by hitting a character at the start of the boot to get a GRUB menu (<space> in convenient). When the menu appears type "a" to append (no quotes - actually edit) the kernel line. Backspace through "rhgb quite" and add "3" then <Enter>. Should boot to a text console where you can debug. If that fails, then try single user mode - just substitute "1" for "3".
Phil
On Sat, 02 Oct 2010 14:14:25 -0400, you wrote:
On Sat, 2010-10-02 at 17:55 +0100, Peter Crighton wrote:
At no point can I get to a text login screen (Ctrl-Alt-F1) so I can't even debug it!
Can anyone suggest what is wrong or how to overcome it?
Boot in verbose mode to runlevel 3 by hitting a character at the start of the boot to get a GRUB menu (<space> in convenient). When the menu appears type "a" to append (no quotes - actually edit) the kernel line. Backspace through "rhgb quite" and add "3" then <Enter>. Should boot to a text console where you can debug. If that fails, then try single user mode - just substitute "1" for "3".
Thanks for that.
It's the config for the video card - it was set to 24 bit depth. Changing to 8 allows it to boot (it's a Matrox Millenium card). I'm not overly bothered by the low colour depth (it's going to be a NAS server for file backup) but is this a common fault with the Matrox Millenium card?
Peter Crighton wrote on 10/03/2010 08:19 AM: ...
It's the config for the video card - it was set to 24 bit depth. Changing to 8 allows it to boot (it's a Matrox Millenium card). I'm not overly bothered by the low colour depth (it's going to be a NAS server for file backup) but is this a common fault with the Matrox Millenium card?
I's a very old card - just not up to high color depth at high resolution.
Phil
On Sun, 2010-10-03 at 16:37 -0400, Phil Schaffner wrote:
Peter Crighton wrote on 10/03/2010 08:19 AM: ...
It's the config for the video card - it was set to 24 bit depth. Changing to 8 allows it to boot (it's a Matrox Millenium card). I'm not overly bothered by the low colour depth (it's going to be a NAS server for file backup) but is this a common fault with the Matrox Millenium card?
I's a very old card - just not up to high color depth at high resolution.
It's not so much the fault of the card as it is the fact that the driver is old and unmaintained.
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