My system:
AMD K6-2 500MHZ
64Mb ram
10 Gb drive
Mandrake 7.0
using KDE
netscape & a modem
What I did (what a dumb thing to do):
I got some info from the internet about stopping all unused daemons with
a recommend list of daemons to remove. I deleted the ones they
recommended (using DrakConf). Then I restarted my system.
The problem:
The system boots up to the penguin logon prompt & the tries to got to
the Xwindows ? logon screen. the monitor makes a click, goes blank, &
returns to the Penguin logon screen for a half second. Then loops in
this click, goes blank, & return to the penguin.
What I have tried!
I have the same Mandrake installed on my old machine. Cyrix 133 Mhz, 48
Mb, 2Gb drive, no modem. I looked on this machine at /etc/rc.d/rc5.d
(run level 5 I hope).
I was able to logon the new (failing) machine as linux level: 3 as root.
Went to /etc/rc.d/rc5.d and checked the files between the two machines.
The following files were missing on the failing machine:
S50inet
S25netfs
S10network
S05kudzu
I tried using linuxconf (on both machines), but I could not get it to
work (sorry I am a newbie). I noticed that all the files were symbolic
links so I did ...................... ln -s ../init.d/inet
for all the missing files (changing the /inet as needed). I can see some
of the daemons start during boot (maybe all of them, I do not know), How
can I look at the boot messages. I looked at dmesg but that does not
have all the messages.
I can boot to level 3 so I can logon as root and do things, but I have
no idea what to do. Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks
Charles
