On Tuesday 12 February 2002 14:25, Greg Smith wrote: > I installed Mandrake 8.1 using the recommended settings. Install went > al the way through without a hickup. It asked me to remove the boot > media and restart. I removed the CD and restarted the machine. The > boot sequence went all the way to the gray criss-cross screen with the > "X" cursor. Just before the login screen popped up, the screen went > black and started flashing a white line across the screen near the top. > The green light on the monitor started to flash as if it was loosing > signal, then gaining signal, then loosing signal, over and over. After > about 5 minutes a non-GUI Linux screen came up and had this message: > > INIT: Id "x" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes > > Then in 5 minutes the screen started to flash again and the whole > process started again. It didn't look good so I shut downand tried to > boot again. Same thing. > > Please, does anybody have an idea on what could be causing this?
Others have had this problem. Search the mailing list archives. The fix was fairly simple, but I don't know what it is. http://www.mail-archive.com/newbie%40linux-mandrake.com/ skinky -- oxymoron: Microsoft Works
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