Please Help. Cannot boot SuSe.
I'm new to linux and have run into a problem while I was trying to get my mouse wheel working. I followed an article I found on a linux site and changed the mose settings in XF86Config to use IMPS/2 protocol. I then restarted but now I get loads of gibberish (looks like a memory dump) scrolling extremely fast during the boot process and continues forever. I have booted using the boot cd -> rescue system, managed to mount my / partition and renamed the backup XF86Config. But now the system gets as far as "configuring serial devices" and then hangs. Could anybody shed any light on this and help me get SuSe booting again? Cheers, Paul.
On Thu, 26 Sep 2002 11:45:47 +0100
"Paul Sprakes"
I'm new to linux and have run into a problem while I was trying to get my mouse wheel working.
I followed an article I found on a linux site and changed the mose settings in XF86Config to use IMPS/2 protocol. I then restarted but now I get loads of gibberish (looks like a memory dump) scrolling extremely fast during the boot process and continues forever.
I have booted using the boot cd -> rescue system, managed to mount my / partition and renamed the backup XF86Config. But now the system gets as far as "configuring serial devices" and then hangs.
Could anybody shed any light on this and help me get SuSe booting again?
Boot from your rescue system and set your login mode to ascii instead of graphical. You will boot to a console, then you can work on getting X setup properly. -- use Perl; #powerful programmable prestidigitation
When the lilo prompt comes in, type "3". The system will boot into text mode instead of graphic. -- Cheers, Carlos Robinson El 02.09.26 a las 11:45, Paul Sprakes escribió:
Date: Thu, 26 Sep 2002 11:45:47 +0100 From: Paul Sprakes
To: suse-linux-e@suse.com Subject: [SLE] Please Help. Cannot boot SuSe. I'm new to linux and have run into a problem while I was trying to get my mouse wheel working.
I followed an article I found on a linux site and changed the mose settings in XF86Config to use IMPS/2 protocol. I then restarted but now I get loads of gibberish (looks like a memory dump) scrolling extremely fast during the boot process and continues forever.
I have booted using the boot cd -> rescue system, managed to mount my / partition and renamed the backup XF86Config. But now the system gets as far as "configuring serial devices" and then hangs.
Could anybody shed any light on this and help me get SuSe booting again?
Cheers, Paul.
Hi If You are still stuck in runlevel 3, try to disable the com-ports from BIOS, that should allow Linux to go past the "configuring serial devices", thus letting You check what can cause this problem. Jaska. On Tuesday 01 October 2002 01:21, Carlos E. R. wrote:
When the lilo prompt comes in, type "3". The system will boot into text mode instead of graphic.
Whenever I have a booting problem with any Linux or Unix system, the first thing I do is to boot up in single user mode. This way you eliminate network, and other configurational issues. Single user mode is the most minimal mode you can boot into. The next step is to boot into multi-user mode with no network (2). You can do this from single user mode by typing /sbin/telinit 2. In any case, debugging boot problems is not fun. On 1 Oct 2002 at 9:52, jaakko tamminen wrote:
Hi
If You are still stuck in runlevel 3, try to disable the com-ports from BIOS, that should allow Linux to go past the "configuring serial devices", thus letting You check what can cause this problem.
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Jerry Feldman
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