I had the opportunity to try another Hard drive, same problem. Can anybody give
me some insight on this strange problem?
Thanks Michael
Michael McLeod wrote:
> The diagnostic utility is one that Western Digital has on their web site. I
> ran it again and this time had it write "0's" over the entire drive and then
> read them, no errors were found. Since this destroyed all data I tried
> loading RH6, this went off without a hitch and ran fine. So, then I tried
> an upgrade to RH7. The upgrade completed ok but would boot to the logon
> screen and then attempt to start "X" but has same problem. There are
> sometimes errors reported during the boot process and sometimes it hangs at
> various points. But, for now the "Always Happens" error is the one about
> gdm already running. Could I have gotten a defective CD from Red Hat?
> Seems strange that RH6 works or and RH 7 does not.
> MIchael
>
> Michael McLeod wrote:
>
> > Not long after RH 7 was released I did a fresh install on my computer
> > (not an Up grade) Everything worked well then about 2 months ago Loadlin
> > stopped working, that is, the boot process would hang someplace
> > especially when X went to startup. The screen would just flash about
> > every 10 seconds and finally display a message something like:
> > .../var/run/gdm.pid gdm already running but seems to have been murdered
> > mysteriously
> > this would be repeated again after about 20 seconds, finally the
> > following messaged would be displayed:
> > INIT:Id "x" respawnind to fast: disabled for 5 mi.
> > I could still boot from Lilo or from disk. Then a few weeks later I
> > could not boot from disk only Lilo.
> > Since I am still in the experimental stage with Linux I just decided to
> > remove and reload the whole program. Well now it won't ever boot from
> > disk and only 1/2 the time will it boot from Lilo.
> > Linux lives in it's own 2 Gb hard drive, Western Digital, and I have
> > run diagnostics on it all is OK. I have reviewed the Cmos settings,
> > nothing seems to have changed. I have checked the 128 Meg of ram ant it
> > is ok. Winblows works fine on the other Hard drive. What could be
> > going on? I'm really stuck, and new to Linux
> > Michael
> >
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