Ed is to blame for helping lots of people! Me very much included. In fact he helped me so much I think I can answer this one ;-)
AFAIR the F12 thing gets you to a live version of the error log. i.e. here you see error messages as they are issued to the system log. If nothing is happening here, that's got to be good right? HTH Brian On Mon, 2002-03-04 at 11:42, FemmeFatale wrote: > > I hope that subject line is correct. It was Ed Tharp I believe who is to blame > > for telling me to re-post if i have a similar problem on a new install of LM8. > > > > Well, I do. I used reiserFS this time as a filesystem, and all went well. > > > > Except, when I tried to do the Ctrl-Alt-F* thing. As soon as I hit F12, I get > > to a screen where it looks like Linux is still hanging mid boot. > > > > The screen looks like the opening Aurora screen with the words, "initializing > > Linux Hook Confs" or something similar. Some of the other Terms are normal > > Login text prompts. And one of them (F6?) I think has just a blinking cursor up > > in the left corner. > > > > Now this is a new install, I did update some packages for security reasons. > > Then I installed the Nvidia drivers (and quickly got hooked on Tux Racer!). > > Needless to say, I was impressed I got that far, so finding the F12 issue was a > > surprise. > > > > Any ideas? I can post whatever file is needed here if that would help. Other > > than that, I'm stumped? > > > > Femme > > > ---- > > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
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