Gutsy boot problem

[Albert Charron]

Richard Mancusi wrote:
> On 10/26/07, pkaplan1 at comcast.net <pkaplan1 at comcast.net> wrote:
>   
>> I did a clean install of Gutsy on a Thinkpad T41.  Now, after selecting the default kernel boot option in Grub, the system freezes after clearing the Grub screen.  However, if I select the option to boot the same kernel in recovery mode, the system boots normally to a command line with root logged in.  At that point if I logout of the root account (CTRL-D), the system continues to start kdm at which point everything seems to work normally, i.e., I can login into user accounts.
>>
>> What's the problem here and how to allow booting of the default kernel?
>> Paul
>>
>>     
>
> I had the exact same problem on a T41.  Try this ... boot to the
> default kernel, but have
> enormous patience - at least 5 min.  If you eventually arrive at the
> logon screen I have
> your answer.  I don't have my T41 with me now but will be able to give
> you the exact
> fix later tonight.  Simply put, it is the screen resolution of GRUB -
> and it is easy to fix.
>
> -rich
>
>   
I had this problem with my Dell Latitude C600 too... I disabled the 
splash screen, so the laptop boots with the scrolling text, then I have 
the graphical login as usual...

I'm quite new to grub, so I don't really know how to edit the grub entry 
at boot time, but I modified the /boot/grub/menu.lst (I removed the 
entries "quiet splash" from the kernel line).

The fact that splash could load, the laptop was taking an awful lot of 
time to boot, looking as if it was frozen. After disabling the splash, 
the boot process is even faster than on Feisty...

Note that I don't have this problem on my other computer...

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