so let mae ask, is this 8.X or 7.x? what kernal are you booting and what 
xfree version. next what keys do you use to go ack to the previous session ( 
[alt-f7] or [alt-f9] )? as I understand it, boot should work from ext3, there 
are/were so problems under some conditions when a ReiserFS (or other journal 
file systems) had problems booting when the journalFS is loaded as a modual 
insteaed of complied in to the kernal


On Wednesday 20 February 2002 05:44, you wrote:
> Awhile back, someone posted a problem on this list regarding having linux
> boot & if you went to a diff screen (Using ctrl-F*) {Term???}, you'd see a
> new login that had hung.
>
> So, for me the problem was that in the normal display (0), i had a fully
> functioning WM & Xwindow session going.  Yet if i used Ctrl-F8 or F10, I
> found a session that was trying to boot but had hung with the message on a
> graphical login of:
>
> Setting Xwindow Hooks (or something similar).
>
> I was wondering what caused this problem & how to alleviate it?
>
> If someone could refer me to the archives on what to look for or a URL I'd
> appreciate it.
>
> If it makes any difference, I was trying to use the / partition as ext2,
> and all the others as Ext3.  I understood that you can't make /boot Ext3 or
> it won't work.  And not knowing how to setup the partitions correctly
> myself, just let the root </> partition be Ext2 & the rest a Journalling
> FS.
>
> As an aside, if there is a better solution to that dilemma, I could use an
> answer to that too.
>
> TIA
> Femme

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