Problems when booting up...

[Larry Shields]

marc wrote:
> Larry Shields said...
>   
>> I'm not sure if anyone has had this problem or not, but here is what 
>> happens when I boot the system up...
>>
>> It starts out with grub, then show a black screen with a loading bar, 
>> but the bar gets just about to the end, then it reverts back to a black 
>> screen, with a login prompt...
>>
>> I now have to login, then startx to get it up and running...Might anyone 
>> know how to correct the problem, so that it will bootup correctly...???
>>     
>
> I had the same issue after attempting to upgrade to edgy. I "fixed" it 
> by removing the 'quiet' option on the grub entry <shrug>
>
> (That said, after recently purging - rather than removing - all the 
> residual files and kernel packages from dapper, I notice that the login 
> manager now loads without the above hack. More shrugs!)
>
>   
Hello Marc,

Well I also tried removing the 'quiet' from my menu.lst, and it still 
did not help as far as the way the system boots up in gdm or as it did 
when it was first installed...

Thanks Larry

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