lrhorer wrote: > > Well, this is the third or fourth upgrade to Squeeze from > Lenny I have > attempted, and they all have been painful. This one has failed, > though. I upgraded and got everything working, but then I decided to > clean up a bit. I did a couple of runs of `apt-get autoremove` and an > `apt-get upgrade, along with installing startupmanager. I removed the > old 2.6.26 kernel image, and then updated Grub. Then I rebooted the > machine. Grub comes up, and if I let it boot to Windows, it works, but > if I select Linux (normal or recovery), very shortly after starting to > boot the video output from the machine just dies. I don't mean it > goes blank, I mean the video goes away altogether, as if the machine > is shut > down. The monitor reports a loss of video signal, yet the PC is still > running and continues to access the hard drive. > > When it was working, the machine would start out in text mode, > but > quickly would switch to graphics mode when booting. I am not certain, > but I think it is at this same point the video output dies, now. I've > tried booting from the installation CD and removing then re-installing > xorg, kdm, and kdebase. No joy. What should I try, now? > > I captured the dmesg and syslog files, but nothing jumps out > at me. Is > there something specific for which I should look in the logs?
OK, I found the issue. One of the things I did was run GRUB2's startupmanager and set the default boot option. While I was in there, I also told it to show the boot splash and changed the resolution to 1024 x 768. Apparently, it did not like that. I booted the system to a bank screen then telnetted in from another machine and removed the contents of the GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT line. Of course I then ran update-grub and rebooted. Viola! Now it boots normally. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/z5udnzqk-kin_fvrnz2dnuvz_hwdn...@giganews.com
