Debian 3.0 (2.4 kernel) upgrade problem
I'm a longtime debian novice who should've learned more by now,
but hasn't, and I have what I expect is a very basic problem.
I've just upgraded an old pentium (p75 I think) machine from
Debian linux 2.2r7 to 3.0 and the 2.4 kernel using apt-get and
dselect, and everything seemed to go very smoothly, until I shut
down the machine.
Now, when I restart it, it loads up, starts X, and gives me the
Debian login prompt. When I log in as myself (I'm the only
user) or as root, it goes through my .xsession stuff but then
promptly dumps me back to the Debian login prompt.
To make matters especially annoying, my rescue floppy is buggy,
so I can't get to anything.
Is there anyone out there who has a rough idea what I've done,
and is there something I can do to get back into the system (some
keystroke combination while things are loading), or do I need to
go get another copy of the rescue disk?
Feeling very silly -- thanks for any insight here!
L.
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