[Fwd: Re: Just installed]

[Richard Blackburn]

Matt Zimmerman wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 23, 2004 at 02:52:46PM -0400, Richard Blackburn wrote:
> 
> 
>>>That's very strange.  How many hard disks do you have, and what kind?
>>
>>Just the one IDE drive... Just cold booted it, and did not get the XP
>>screen, but the screen in hosed... rainbow colored squiggly lines...
>>
>>Is there a way to stop it from starting the X system and changing the
>>video mode and trying that?  the screen reminds me of the screen you get
>>when in a video mode not supported...
> 
> 
> If you erased the entire disk, and yet still got a screen from XP, something
> went wrong somewhere along the way.
> 
> X does not start until the very last step of the installation, and if I
> recall correctly, you haven't even started the second stage install yet
> (only the part where you booted from the CD), so something else is wrong.
> 
No, I have preformed both stages of the install.  This happened after 
the second stage of the install...

Is there a way to force it to boot without the X System launching?