On Mon, 2008-06-23 at 18:56 +0000, tony.chamberlain@xxxxxxxxx wrote: > > We installed Linux and some software for a customer and sent him the > machine. > First we made sure everything was OK, rebooted, etc. > > But now when he is trying to bring it up it goes through all the > initialization stuff, > etc., but then he just gets the blue screen (you know, you usually get > a blue > screen but with a login box in the middle?). Anyway all he gets is a > blue screen. > > Any idea what could be wrong? I know before there was a problem where > in /etc/inittab > for runlevel 3, instead of > > id:5:initdefault: > > > I put > > x:5:respawn:/etc/X11/prefdm -nodaemon > > but I tried this on a machine here. It never gives you the blue > screen. > It hangs after the initialization, and never goes into X. Also, I had > him bring up the kernal select and put a " s" for single-user mode, > but the same thing happened. > > Any ideas? I would first want to know what happens before the blue screen. There is no way the booting to single user could get you a blue gdm screen. I would suspect a mangled grub.conf file. -- ======================================================================= May you die in bed at 95, shot by a jealous spouse. ======================================================================= Aaron Konstam telephone: (210) 656-0355 e-mail: akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
