Thanks Bob, BP> Even if you think you only tweaked X if this is your behavior there BP> must have been some other change to the boot sequence. Because BP> changing X would not affect boot. (And if I were changing X I would BP> not have rebooted personally because they are not related.)
No, I agree on both/all counts so I am rather baffled. I was rebooting just to see what happened with the boot prompt on the machine with the X tweaks. BP> After booting from the install disk, using alt-f2 to get to a prompt, ... Debug why BP> lilo is having problems and fix them. Rerun lilo Well I was rather lame on the debugging but otherwise did as you advise. Thanks again! BP> Personally I recommend grub because it is very much more dynamic at BP> handling these types of boot issues. For example, at the grub boot BP> prompt you could edit any of your boot parameters. Yes, I think I'll now look very hard at grub BP> You would be looking for something that you did but did not know you BP> did. Quite so: I remain stumped but ... BP> But not a huge deal in any case. Boot the recover disk, mount BP> the system, rerun lilo and debug the problem. You will be back up and BP> running soon. As you say. So good always to know that people are out on debian-user when things do go wrong. Chris -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
