HUH???? That's a pretty long way to go IMHO...
Why not just boot into text mode and
"rpm -e 'rpm -qa | grep aurora'"
-JMS
-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Sridhar Dhanapalan
Sent: Friday, July 27, 2001 9:31 AM
To: James S Bear; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: NEWBIE Mandrake List
Subject: Re: [newbie] Strange X problem I have never had before. (damn
thing crashed again.)
Don't use Aurora -- it's more trouble than it's worth. Do a fresh
reinstall
(just in case), making sure to format (but _don't_ low-level format as
James
suggested below!) the partition before installing. When you get to
choose the
boot loader, choose either LILO or GRUB, but _without_ graphics (i.e.
text-only). Your bootup may not look as pretty but at least it should
work.
On Fri, 27 Jul 2001 12:13, James S Bear wrote:
> I've had this same problem. The only way I've found to cure it is to
> do a low-level format and start all over. This brings to my mind a
> question:
>
> How efficient is the formatting of ext2? Compared to a dos format, it
> takes next to no time. I've always been taught that haste makes
> waste, but I understand that possibly it is just easier to format
> ext2. Can anybody explain to me why it takes so much less time to
> format ext2?
>
> jim
>
> Quoting Franki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> > Hi guys,
> >
> > just wondering if anyone can give me any ideas on this:
> >
> > The system:
> > 200 Ppro
> > 64mb ram.
> > S3Virge 2MB
> > ReiserFS
> >
> >
> > The Problem:
> >
> > System boots in vga=788 mode with Aurora perfectly.
> >
> > when starting x, (after using drakconf and trying progressively
> > lower res and color) the system locks up tight..
> >
> > monitor starts flashing "no sync signal" and CTRL-ALT-DEL, or
> > CTRL-ALT-BACKSPACE or anything else works either..
> >
> > altough the number lock and caps key lights are still working, so it
> > doesn't look like a total lockup..
> >
> >
> > can't switch to another terminal either..
> >
> >
> > Latest problem, after another crash, this time haing tried 640x480
> > bit,,, the system is reporting this no boot (unsucessful boot I
> > might add.
> >
> > INIT: version 2.78 booting
> > INIT: /etc/inittab[6]: id field too long (max 4 characters)
> > INIT: /etc/inittab[7]: id missing action field
> >
> > a heap of other stuff like that,,, then :
> >
> > Enter runlevel:
> >
> > no mater what I select, it tells me "INIT: no more processes left on
> > this runlevel"
> >
> >
> >
> > anyone know how to fix that? I have just reinstalled this thing 3
> > times, don't want to make it 4 if it can be avoided..
> >
> >
> > The daft thing was, I had KDE running perfectly, had upgraded the
> > kernel to 2.2.19 and did all my usual config stuff..
> >
> > Then I tried to load aurora, got that working, then X disappeared,
> > and now it appears that I have had a data coruption as well.
> >
> > This is not going well at all...
> >
> >
> > any help, suggestions, general cursing,, anything at all is most
> > welcome..
> >
> >
> > regards
> >
> > Frank
>
> Ignorance is underrated
--
Sridhar Dhanapalan.
"There are two major products that come from Berkeley:
LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to be a coincidence."
-- Jeremy S. Anderson
