Question about reboot!!!!!!!
 

i have dual system on my IBM laptop, winxp and RH linux 9.0. Now i find that if restart computer from windows to linux, can not get into the welcome login screen of linux. the screen is just blank and stay there. If i reboot from linux or power on the computer to linux, no problem.
I even re-install linux, still can not solve.

anyone has same experience?

regards


Septanla

BTW, ctrl-F1, also does not work.

Sorry for so needy, where to view the booting events log?

/var/log/messages

What bootmanager are you running? If's it's lilo, please post your lilo.conf file, if it's grub, please post your grub file -- J.W.

I use GRUB.
The following is Grub.con

# grub.conf generated by anaconda
#
# Note that you do not have to rerun grub after making changes to this file
# NOTICE: You do not have a /boot partition. This means that
# all kernel and initrd paths are relative to /, eg.
# root (hd0,6)
# kernel /boot/vmlinuz-version ro root=/dev/hda7
# initrd /boot/initrd-version.img
#boot=/dev/hda
default=1
timeout=10
splashimage=(hd0,6)/boot/grub/splash.xpm.gz
title Red Hat Linux (2.4.20-8)
root (hd0,6)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.20-8 ro root=LABEL=/
initrd /boot/initrd-2.4.20-8.img
title Windows XP
rootnoverify (hd0,0)
chainloader +1

The follwoing is from /var/log/messages
I believe the ERROR at the last line is the reason because the time is when my system can not boot up. But i do not know what its meaning and how to solve. Is it a service? if so, where to stop that service?

Apr 29 15:34:09 localhost kernel: agpgart: AGP aperture is 64M @ 0xe0000000
Apr 29 15:34:10 localhost kernel: [drm] AGP 0.99 on Intel i845 @ 0xe0000000 64MB
Apr 29 15:34:10 localhost kernel: [drm] Initialized radeon 1.7.0 20020828 on minor 0
Apr 29 15:34:10 localhost kernel: PCI: Found IRQ 11 for device 01:00.0
Apr 29 15:34:10 localhost kernel: PCI: Sharing IRQ 11 with 00:1d.0
Apr 29 15:34:21 localhost gdm(pam_unix)[3011]: session opened for user root by (uid=0)
Apr 29 15:34:23 localhost gconfd (root-3096): starting (version 2.2.0), pid 3096 user 'root'
Apr 29 15:34:23 localhost gconfd (root-3096): Resolved address "xml:readonly:/etc/gconf/gconf.xml.mandatory" to a read-only config source at position 0
Apr 29 15:34:23 localhost gconfd (root-3096): Resolved address "xml:readwrite:/root/.gconf" to a writable config source at position 1
Apr 29 15:34:23 localhost gconfd (root-3096): Resolved address "xml:readonly:/etc/gconf/gconf.xml.defaults" to a read-only config source at position 2
Apr 29 15:34:29 localhost kernel: ide-floppy driver 0.99.newide
Apr 29 15:34:29 localhost kernel: hdc: ATAPI 24X CD-ROM drive, 128kB Cache, UDMA(33)
Apr 29 15:34:29 localhost kernel: Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.12
Apr 29 15:34:31 localhost kernel: cdrom: This disc doesn't have any tracks I recognize!
Apr 29 15:34:37 localhost kernel: [drm:radeon_freelist_get] *ERROR* returning NULL!