I booted a live-CD version of ubuntu 12.10 (sorry) and mounted the debian partition /dev/sda1
Went to /etc/inittab and changed id:2:initdefault to id:1:initdefault and rebooted. System brought up the mangled screen instead of an ASCII display. This get us any further? chuck -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
