RH 7.3 does not start X !!

marcoc · 06-08-2002, 11:57 AM

Hello!

I updated my home pc from RH 7.2 to 7.3. The update was completely succesfull, but after the first reboot (after the upgrade) I discovered that the system does NOT recognize my monitor anymore (strangely, since this monitor, an "olivetti", worked perfectly with RH 7.2, and I only made an upgrade and not a fresh installation).

Now I obtain a dark screen without possibility to login with X. What could I do? Can I start RH in text mode? How? Or should you suggest to make a fresh installation in order to bypass this problem...?

...Thanks in advance for any help !

Marco

shoot2kill · 06-08-2002, 12:34 PM

I think the GUI is not configure properly after the upgrade to 7.3, u can press ctrl-alt-backspace to kill the x-server, this will allow u to go to text prompt, and from there u can login and then do Xconfigurator to set things right.

to change from GUI login to text login, u may check your /etc/inittab file, try understanding the different run level, to change to text login, simply change the statement id:5:default(something like that, can't remember) to 3.

luck!

Noerr · 06-08-2002, 05:06 PM

go for Xconfigurator again

marcoc · 06-08-2002, 07:26 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by shoot2kill
I think the GUI is not configure properly after the upgrade to 7.3, u can press ctrl-alt-backspace to kill the x-server,

Thanks but... strangely, it seems this not work, the only sequence of keys the system recognize in this "state of black screen" is ctrl-alt-del to force a new reboot...

I wonder if I can tell GRUBE to perform a not grafical boot of linux, since it seems impossible to kill the X server... could I?

Thanks again,

Marco

linuxcool · 06-09-2002, 04:14 AM

To boot into non-graphical mode, when you get the grub menu, select linux and then press the ' E ' key. You'll get a screen that will list the lines from the menu.lst file. Look for the ' kernel ' line and select it. Press the ' E ' key and add init=? to the end of the line. Next, press ENTER and then the ' B ' key. Replace the ? with the runlevel that you want. If you want single user mode, use the number 1 ( one ). You could also use the word single instead of init=1

marcoc · 06-11-2002, 05:06 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by linuxcool
To boot into non-graphical mode, when you get the grub menu, select linux and then press the ' E ' key. You'll get a screen that will list the lines from the menu.lst file. Look for the ' kernel ' line and select it. Press the ' E ' key and add init=? to the end of the line. Next, press ENTER and then the ' B ' key. Replace the ? with the runlevel that you want. If you want single user mode, use the number 1 ( one ). You could also use the word single instead of init=1

Ok, it may appear strange, but... it seems this don't work in my situation!
Onestly, I am not sure of what the problem may be.

At any rate, I think that also a fresh installation would not bypass this problem: in fact, one of the first message displayed when I try to start a fresh installation is "Unable to probe monitor"... Maybe that my monitor configuration is recognised by RH 7.2 and not by RH 7.3 ? And why I can't manage to start in no graphical mode?

Anyway, thanks to all for your kind help!

Marco