I have built a Debian Etch partition from the buisness card cdr mainly so I can use/upgrade programs that depend on Gnome libraries. I tried an Ubuntu install earlier.
Both Debian and Ubuntu show this peculiar trait. When I boot and select the first choice from the grub menu the OS goes into a loop. I sign on and then it does another hard boot ultimaely preenting me the rub menu again. . But the single user boot seems to work. However it is as advertised, just single user. Here is the info from menu.lst: title Debian GNU/Linux, kernel 2.6.18-5-686 root (hd0,0) kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.18-5-686 root=/dev/hda1 ro initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.18-5-686 savedefault title Debian GNU/Linux, kernel 2.6.18-5-686 (single-user mode) root (hd0,0) kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.18-5-686 root=/dev/hda1 ro single initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.18-5-686 savedefault ### END DEBIAN AUTOMAGIC KERNELS LIST I am new to Debian/Ubuntu so this confuses me. John Culleton -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
