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 fixable via fsck. I ran 'e2fsck -y /dev/hdb1' to fix that problem and
continued with the boot sequence - only to end up at the same unstable
situation I have described before.
I think my options are to continue with setting up the 'tomsrtbt' disk
mentioned by Ken in an effort to boot via disk, mount file systems to have a
look at them to see what is wrong and try to fix it - otherwise to install a
new system. In my case that will probably be Debian.
Cheers,
Adam.
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From: Crossfire [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: 05 May, 2001 09:18 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:
> 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
thing suggested for you to try.
>
> Unfortunately it is not so easy ... the whole goddam thing does not stay
> stable long enough to finish writing two words. I know ... I tried it.
Umm, what are you talking about?
you boot single at the lilo prompt, not the login prompt.
If your kenrel image is linux, you type [at the lilo prompt]:
linux single
of course, since you're using RedHat 7, by default there is athe
cruddy graphical boot screen, which you can hit escape at to get back
to the prompt IIRC [I disabled the boot graphic shortly after
installing RH7]
The problem is that the X server can't start properly, and is dieing,
and GDM is continuously trying to respawn it - and to make matters
worse, the X server is getting far enough to start initialising the
console, hence why you can't change VT, etc for very long.
When you boot single user, gdm isn't running.
C.
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