At runlevel 5, the inittab from RedHat 5.0 had gettys on tty1-tty6, same
as runlevel 3. I have never seen X get so hosed up that you can't
switch to a text console with control-alt-f<n>, but I generally don't
use any window manager. Wine works X pretty hard, though.
If you installed lilo on your hd, you can get its attention by holding a
shift key while it is booting, at at the prompt, tell it:
linux single
(assuming your image is named linux) and that should get you into a
single user mode on a text console. Then you can change the default
runlevel in inittab back to 3 and go to work trying to debug the GUI
problems. You can log in as root on a text console and run xdm to make
sure it works right before switching runlevels in inittab. You could
also have tried runlevel 5 without committing yourself to it by saying
/sbin/telinit 5 without changing inittab. But that is for next time.
:-)
I can't possibly debug a kernel panic without you tell me what it is
panicked about. It has good reason, believe me. Either it has reason
to believe the hardware is broken, or you have asked it to do something
that just can't be done and wouldn't make sense if it could. It tries
to explain what has it upset, but it's not too awfully articulate.
Lawson
>< Microsoft free environment
This mail client runs on Wine. Your mileage may vary.
On Fri, 1 Jan 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I booted from a Linux boot disk, the two lilo options are 'linux' and
> 'rescue'.I have tried both and with both I get a Kernel panic message.
>
> I have not yet been able to use RH6 in GUI due to hanging of my
> system.Previously I have used RH5.2 and I was able to use the KDE GUI
> directly.Now when I reinstalled RH55.2 and when I change to runlevel 5
in
> /etc/inittab my system freezes.I am using the same graphics card cirrus
> logic 5446,hdd.I have recently changed the M/B -KOB ZX-AT and to a PII
350.
>
> Any help will be highly appreciated
>
> Gerry Mascarenhas
>
___________________________________________________________________
Get the Internet just the way you want it.
Free software, free e-mail, and free Internet access for a month!
Try Juno Web: http://dl.www.juno.com/dynoget/tagj.
