F7: Can't Start X

Dave Cross davorg at gmail.com
Wed Jul 11 22:11:09 UTC 2007


On 7/11/07, Martin Marques <martin at bugs.unl.edu.ar> wrote:
> Dave Cross escribió:
> >
> > That's when it went wrong. The boot sequence got as far as starting X
> > when it hung. Further investigation shows that I can boot into
> > runlevel 3, but it hangs when I run startx. There don't seem to be any
> > error logs written.
> >
> > During the boot sequence I see a couple of error messages that mention
> > not being able to access /dev/hda5. That bothers me as I thought that
> > all disk devices were /dev/sdaX in F7.
>
> Ahhh?!?!
>
> sdaX are SCSI or SATA disks. IDE disks should still be hdaX. What do you
> have in hda5? See /etc/fstab.

Hmm... when I boot into runlevel 3, all of the disks (and they're all
IDE disks) are listed as /dev/sdaX. I'm pretty sure that's a major
change I've read about the F7 kernel.

> > If it helps, the laptop is a Philips X51[1]. But I recently learnt
> > that it's actually a rebadged Twinhead D12[2].
>
> Maybe the problem is related to the partition that is giving you
> problems. Else, I would try with the vesa driver (crappy, but it almost
> always works).

Ok. How would I try that?

Dave...




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