Re: [SLUG] Can't log in to RH7 drive. Ideas ?

2001-05-09 Thread Crossfire
Adam F. Bogacki was once rumoured to have said: Thanks, C. I followed your advice in going into the - I agree - cruddy RH7 LILO graphic, using control-x to get into interactive login and typing 'linux single'. It told me there were duplicate/bad blocks in /dev/hdb1 which were

Re: [SLUG] Can't log in to RH7 drive. Ideas ?

2001-05-09 Thread Colin Humphreys
On Tue, May 08, 2001 at 10:06:37PM +1000, Crossfire wrote: Adam F. Bogacki was once rumoured to have said: Thanks, C. I followed your advice in going into the - I agree - cruddy RH7 LILO graphic, using control-x to get into interactive login and typing 'linux single'. It told me

RE: [SLUG] Can't log in to RH7 drive. Ideas ?

2001-05-04 Thread Adam F. Bogacki
:28 AM To: Adam F. Bogacki Cc: Slug@Slug. Org. Au; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [SLUG] Can't log in to RH7 drive. Ideas ? Adam F. Bogacki was once rumoured to have said: Hi, I'm having trouble logging in to my RH7 drive. When I try I get a repeated message before the log

Re: [SLUG] Can't log in to RH7 drive. Ideas ?

2001-05-04 Thread Crossfire
Adam F. Bogacki was once rumoured to have said: Muchas Gracias for your wisdom, Crossfire ! I'm actually sorry about my reply - I was in my usual early morning bad-mood and was extremely annoyed that nobody (except Colin) had suggested to boot single, which actually should have been the first

RE: [SLUG] Can't log in to RH7 drive. Ideas ?

2001-05-03 Thread Adam F. Bogacki
PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 03 May, 2001 04:13 PM To: Adam F. Bogacki Cc: Slug@Slug. Org. Au Subject: Re: [SLUG] Can't log in to RH7 drive. Ideas ? On Thu, May 03, 2001 at 03:22:05PM +1000, Adam F. Bogacki wrote: Hi, I'm having trouble logging in to my

RE: [SLUG] Can't log in to RH7 drive. Ideas ?

2001-05-03 Thread Adam F. Bogacki
: ken [mailto:ken]On Behalf Of Ken Caldwell Sent: 03 May, 2001 10:41 PM To: Adam F. Bogacki Subject: Re: [SLUG] Can't log in to RH7 drive. Ideas ? ... is tomsrtbt disk the same as the RH7 boot disk ? I still have the one I made when upgrading from 6.2 to 7.0. It's certainly worth a try

Re: [SLUG] Can't log in to RH7 drive. Ideas ?

2001-05-03 Thread Colin Humphreys
Have you tried logging in single user? Type linux single at the lilo prompt and will definitly avoid starting X which seams to be your problem. On Thu, May 03, 2001 at 04:12:49PM +1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, May 03, 2001 at 03:22:05PM +1000, Adam F. Bogacki wrote: Hi, I'm

RE: [SLUG] Can't log in to RH7 drive. Ideas ?

2001-05-03 Thread Steven downing
Adam, I think something needs to be cleared up. Tomsrtbt is a samll Linux distribution which will run off a floppy. If you get this you can start linux on the floppy, then mount your RedHat partition, but you will be running TOMSRTBT, not Redhat. From the sounds off things after that I would

Re: [SLUG] Can't log in to RH7 drive. Ideas ?

2001-05-03 Thread Crossfire
Adam F. Bogacki was once rumoured to have said: Hi, I'm having trouble logging in to my RH7 drive. When I try I get a repeated message before the log-in screen should come up, suggesting the boot program is doing a loop: Boot single user. d'uh. C. --

Re: [SLUG] Can't log in to RH7 drive. Ideas ?

2001-05-02 Thread mikel
On Thu, May 03, 2001 at 03:22:05PM +1000, Adam F. Bogacki wrote: Hi, I'm having trouble logging in to my RH7 drive. When I try I get a repeated message before the log-in screen should come up, suggesting the boot program is doing a loop: According to /var/run/gdm.pid, gdm was already