Red Hat wont boot! Arrrh Help!

robson8112 · 01-10-2004, 02:10 PM

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)

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Redhat Linux Release 9 (shrike)
Kernal 2.4.30-8 on an i686

localhost login:

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I pauses on that screen then goes blank and comes back to it.

and thats all it does!

Help!

Zero-0-Effect · 01-10-2004, 05:27 PM

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!

robson8112 · 01-11-2004, 04:44 AM

Hi,

Im bit of a newbie to linux. How can i boot into level 3 and where can i locate the correct logs?

robson8112 · 01-11-2004, 08:13 AM

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)

robson8112 · 01-11-2004, 08:34 AM

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.

Zero-0-Effect · 01-11-2004, 10:11 AM

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.