strangeness with safe mode install/boot
Glen Robinson
gtr at frii.com
Tue Sep 11 18:49:45 UTC 2007
I have been running feisty for some time on a Dell laptop w/o problems.
A friend asked me about installing it on his Averatec AV250HX laptop.
Running from the CD with normal boot left eth0 (a VIA chipset Rhine II
100 implementation) inoperative. Additionally, the boot occasionally
hung. Booting in safe mode always worked and always enabled eth0. I
also tried xubuntu feisty. Xubuntu always came up with everything
except eth0 running on a normal boot from CD. Xubuntu always came up
with everything working when booting in safe mode. Does 'safe mode' do
anything besides forcing vesa mode in graphics? If it isn't supposed to
be affecting anything else, is there a possibility that there is a bug
in the VIA chipset driver? Finally, should I go ahead and install one
of the releases to hard disk with safe mode?
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