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Is
there any chance you were in TWM, Tim(Tom's?) Window
Manager?
It's
just a big blue screen, until you start clicking.
I'm no
smart guy on kernel upgrades (I've never tried it via apt, for instance) but
that blue color rings a bell.
The
other suggestion is correct, type Ctrl-Alt-F1 to get a console to see what is
going on.
-----Original Message-----
From: alan brown [mailto:alanbrown@pacbell.net] Sent: Monday, December 23, 2002 3:26 AM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Installing a new kernel... I used apt-get install kernel-image-2.4.18-386 to update my kernel.
I added a line to lilo.conf regarding initrd=/initrd.img (or whatever it was that I was told to do while the new kernel was being installed). Everything went swimmingly. When I rebooted my system, I couldn't see any problems with the modules being loaded and the devices being checked. But, just as I was expecting it to offer me the graphical login screen, the whole screen went blank (not black though, it's cyan or turquoise or a bluey green or...).
I was able to reboot and then use LILO to boot my old kernel so everything is under control, but I'm not sure what I did wrong in the install. The instructions were pretty straightforward. /vmlinuz points to the new kernel. /vmlinuz.old points to the old one. It was all done for me during the install. In fact, the only thing I had to do was put the aforementioned line in lilo.conf
Any pointers would be appreciated...
alan ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |