Thanks, that got me to a starting point. I managed to boot and attempted to
startx. It crashed with the following error message: (I truncked a lot of stuff
at teh beginning)
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_FontTransSocketUNIXConnect: Can't connect: errno = 111
failed to set default font path 'unix/:-1'
Fatal server error:
could not open default font 'fixed'
When reporting a problem related to a server crash, please send
the full server output, not just the last messages
X connection to :0.0 broken (explicit kill or server shutdown).
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I could not "find" any fixed fonts on my system, but lots and lots of other
fonts! Any clues would be appreciated.
Gilligan
blakel wrote:
> A simplified way to get your system up and running is to type linux 3 at the
> Lilo prompt, it sounds like your system is set to boot into run-level 5 and
> launch X-windows/kdm. If you boot to linux 3 you should be able to log in to
> the system in text mode and do some debugging on your X-server. As to the
> rescue disk, I haven't had very much luck (personally) getting them to work
> with
> my system.
>
> Luther Blake
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> >My Mandrake 7.0 (2.2.14-15mdk) would not boot this morning, and neither
> >would my boot/rescue disk work!
> >
> >I've had Mandrake for about 6 months, and have been running Slackware
> >for over five years, so, i'm not a newbie, although, I may not exactly
> >be an expert either.
> >
> >Hard drive boot symptoms: Every thing goes normally untill just afer
> >the block penguin comes up and dissapears. Normally, after the penguin
> >dissapears, a few seconds later, the gray X windoes screen apears for a
> >few seconds, then the blue mandrake login screen appears. What I get,
> >after teh penguin dissapears is nothing, just a blank screen. The hard
> >drive does several seeks every 4-5 seconds, but that is all I get.
> >After a minute or so of this, I hit CTRL-ALT-DEL, which began the
> >shutdown process. The (near) normal shutdown sequence appeared, with
> >all of the green [ OK ] messages, but there was one red [ FAILED ] This
> >was the very first message and it was attempting to shut down X windows.
> >
> >Rescue disk boot symptoms: I first used the boot disk I created during
> >the installation of Mandrake. If I select Linux at the LILO prompt, it
> >attempts to boot from the hard drive, and I get the same symptomes as
> >above. If I select Rescue, it loads the kernel and then asks for a
> >"root floppy disk". I just hit return to use the same floppy disk I
> >just loaded the kernel from. This did not work, I got an error about
> >not finding init.
> >
> >I still have my old system, with Slackware 3.? and a 2.0.0 kernel. I
> >also have the same version of Mandrake loaded on this system, no X
> >windows though, as my partition was only 120 MB or so. I booted to
> >Mandrake and did a mkbootdisk. The man page claims this can be used as
> >a rescue disk, too. Booting to Rescue in LILO, with this new disk,
> >fails as the previous boot disk did. Booting to Linux in LILO also
> >fails, as the hard drive is partiitioned differently on my two machines.
> >
> >I read the Bootdisk-HOWTO. That was extreemly complicated. I'm sure it
> >would take me a few days to get through that, with a working system!
> >There were several links to prebuilt boot disks, but none for Mandrake.
> >
> >Questions:
> >
> >1. Does the boot/rescue disk I made with during installation od
> >Mandrake actually work in the rescue mode? How?
> >
> >2. Does the mkbootdisk command make a rescue disk that works in the
> >rescue mode? How?
> >
> >3. Does Mandrake have boot/rescue disk images available? I searched
> >the web page, and didn't find anything.
> >
> >4. Would any or some particular non-Mandrake rescue disks work OK with
> >my Mandrake system?
> >
> >Thanks
> >
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