On 8/30/07, Chris Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi > > STONE COLD wrote: > > unfortunately i cant provide the error message as it restarts straight > away and i cant take a screen dump! > > The machine reboots immediately after telling you it can't start X? > > The error printed in the blue screen is useless anyway, it's just a > message telling you that it didn't work. What would be much more useful > is a copy of /var/log/Xorg.0.log after X has failed to start. If you > have a USB stick you should be able to mount it manually and copy the > log file there.
You could boot into the recovery mode, which doesn't attempt to start X. I don't think I have ever seen the machine reboot by itself when X fails to start. Press Ctrl+Alt+F1 (or F2 if that doesn't work) when the blue screen is showing, and you should be greeted with a text login prompt. Matthew. PS. Someone once told me that you don't get the grub menu if it is not a dual-boot. How do you get to the recovery mode in this case?
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