Re: Grub issues and 2 harddrives

On Sun, 02 Apr 2006 17:12:19 -0700, MADMAN wrote:


imotgm wrote:
On Sun, 02 Apr 2006 12:48:28 -0700, MADMAN wrote:


My only "error" is that nothing loads. Only the little x mouse pointer
I explained above. Any ideas on this?

At which point, what happens if you press Ctrl+Alt+F1, or Ctrl+Alt+F2?

I tried Ctrl+Alt+F1, Ctrl+Alt+F2 , Ctrl+Alt+Backspace , Ctrl+Esc

And absolutely no reactions. But I can still move around my mouse
pointer :D.

So your machine is freezing while trying to start X. Try booting to a
console. When the boot menu offers to boot SUSE, press the F3 button, and
then type init 3 and press the Enter button. If your installation is not
totally screwed, you should boot to run level 3, and be presented with a
login prompt. From there you should be able to log in as root, and run
Sax2 to set up your graphics card, monitor, and mouse. Sax2 will ask you
to test the graphics set up, after you've given your information on the
card, and monitor. Do so. If all looks good, accept the settings, exit
Sax2, then, at the prompt, type exit.

You'll get the login prompt again. This time log in as your normal user,
then type startx, and hit the Enter button. X, and KDE, should start at
that time.

Before you do any of the above, you'll need to know what graphics card,
monitor, and mouse you have, to properly answer the questions Sax2 puts to
you. You'll need to know the screen resolution, and refresh rate that
works for your monitor.

If you have an ATI, or Nvidia card, you'll need the proprietary drivers to
enable 3d. Until you get them, using the vesa driver will usually get you
a satisfactory 2d screen.

David Wright on Wed, Mar 15 2006 6:05 am
Yep, it is a known problem with some versions of kdm and kdebase
packages,
you need to upgrade until you find one that is stable for your
machine...
That's why they are unsupported, they aren't guaranteed to work
properly
with all configurations...

Do you think this is my problem? That these kde packages are flawed?
Should I try to reinstall with gnome instead?

Not likely. More likely is that X needs to be properly configured before
you can use either KDE or Gnome, or any other wm you may have installed.

The first thing You need is to just be able to boot to a usable Linux
console, so try "init 3" (without the quotes), as written above, then, if
that works, follow the rest of the instructions given above.

--
imotgm
"Lost? Lost? I've never been lost... Been a tad confused for a
month or two, but never lost."


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