dave@owenville.net wrote:
> 1. Booted, boot messages were going by, right after hardware detection the
> screen went blank. No recovery possible. Manually rebooted.
>
> 2. Booted, boot messages were going by, right after hardware detection the
> screen went blank. No recovery possible. Manually rebooted. Vowed to remember
> recovery mode next time. ;)
>
> 3. Booted recovery mode, boot messages were going by, very quickly screen went
> blank. No recovery possible. Manually rebooted.
>
> 4. Booted into Windows to make sure my other partitions were still okay. They
> were. Are. Whew.
>
> I am currently assuming that the issue is my NVidia GeForce MX200 DVI-output
> video card and Gateway FPD1500 LCD monitor, which many Linux distributions have
> historically had a problem with (as the monitor reports its' settings
> incorrectly). XandrOS and Linspire have no difficulties with this video
> hardware, but Suse 8.2 and Debian woody did (both required manual modification
> of X config to work). I assume that if I were able to boot Debian into console
> mode, I would be able to work around this issue -- sadly, recovery mode does not
> appear to allow this. Would be grateful to learn that I am wrong.
You should be able to boot it into emergency mode ("linux emergency").
You'll then need to remount root read-write and try to see what is
causing this. Try starting hotplug and see if that loads a module that
kills yor display.
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see shy jo
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