What? No Ninja's?
The Dell R200 dual core server I was using has a ATI ES1000 ("Rage" not
"Radeon" I guess). However, with the Dell Remote Administration Card,
output on the ATI is disabled and is instead sent through the DRAC. Not
sure what that means for you. Further, I did not install X at
Critical vs High
"For example, if the system fails to boot, or X fails to start, on a
certain make and model of computer"
This is not a certain make and model. It appears to be any make and
model. It also appears that it can occur almost spontaneously as a
response to even normally very benign
I will third the Critical. Even though I was able to get it booting
quickly again reliably with one of the workarounds (thanks Mike and
others) it is disconcerting to me to know that it could just start doing
this again pretty much whenever. This is a server that we shipped out
to a client site a
I managed to eliminate this issue merely by commenting out all the
"console output" lines in the five init files mentioned above. What is
also interesting is this
I did not have any problems with this machine while it was on my desk.
I booted it countless times without problems while configur