Red Hat wont boot! Arrrh Help!
Hi,
I have Redhat 9 (2.4.20-8). It booted fine yesterday. But today it will not boot at all. I goes thru the nornal boot. But i wont come onto the login screen. I keeps cycling back to the black login screen (none-gui) ----------------------------------- Redhat Linux Release 9 (shrike) Kernal 2.4.30-8 on an i686 localhost login: ------------------------------------ I pauses on that screen then goes blank and comes back to it. and thats all it does! Help! |
Its trying to restart X over and over again and failing. Boot into run level 3 so you can view your logs and post your xfree86 logs so we can see what is happening.
Posting the full log is not really necessary... take you a forever to copy that by hand.. just the last few sections that describe the errors! |
Hi,
Im bit of a newbie to linux. How can i boot into level 3 and where can i locate the correct logs? |
Ok,
I've logged onto another harddrive with linux on, and mounted my (none booting) Redhat 9 drive. I've located the logs in /var/log These are the 3 i've found: XFree86.0.log XFree86.0.log.old XFree86.1.log Which log shall I be looking at and what to look for? My video card is a nVidia TNT2 Model 64 if that helps? Thanks (ps i still get the GUI grub loader when i first boot) |
YES!
I've sorted it. I copied Xfree86.config file from my Debian linux to my redhat 9 drive. Redhat now boots up a treat. Thanks for pointing me in the right direction. |
Sorry couldn't get back to you on those questions but im glad you were able to figure it out, I was having a bit of problems myself.
You might want to tweak that config file that you copied over from the debian system... It more than likely uses a older version of X windows then redhat is useing. |
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