Re: [SLE] Lost Suse 9.0 at boot!

From: Alex Angerhofer (alex_at_chem.ufl.edu)
Date: 03/14/04

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    On Sun, 14 Mar 2004, Bob Barnes wrote:

    > I turned off my computer, shouldn't have done that I guess. When I turned
    > it on Suse 9.0 with all upgrades went through the text part of the boot,
    > when It got to the graphics part I got part of a screen full of vertical
    > closely spaced colored lines. When the boot finished, (at least the HD light
    > quit flickering) I had a screen full of these multicolored lines and that

    hmmm.... what have you been doing before you switched it off? Was this
    happening just after you upgraded to 9.0? It looks to me that your X setup
    is hosed. Any chance that your mouse and keyboard are still working after
    you boot?

    > was it. Stock KDE and stock kernel. Tried the "repair" off cd1, it asked for
    > repair login, apparently that's not the same as "regular" login as it
    > wouldn't accept my input. Any ideas how to get back into Suse, I kinda
    > like it and have put quite a bit of work into customizing for my taste.
    > Don't really want to have to reinstall if I don't have to.
    >

    You could follow Hartmut's advice and simply log on as root using the
    rescue boot off of CD1. Or, you could use ctrl-alt-F2 to get to a console
    from your weird looking monitor output. Then you could log on as root. I
    think what you need to do in either case is to run sax2 from a console and
    repair your monitor/graphics card settings. I would also recommend you set
    the default runlevel to 3 using yast.

    HTH, Alex. 

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