On Mon, Dec 11, 2006 at 08:57:03AM -0500, hendrik@topoi.pooq.com wrote: > On Sun, Dec 10, 2006 at 07:38:37PM -0800, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > > > why don't you boot sarge, chroot into etch and install a kernel from > > inside the chroot? I think udev wants a kernel >= 2.6.15, IIRC. > > Actually, it turns out that aptitude *&had* managed to install the new > kernel -- it just hadn't put it into the boot menu -- a probelm easily > fixed from the sarge system. great! > > I now have an etch with networking, which I can use aptitude on, but > whose X doesn't come up properly. startx brings me to the black screen > of death, xdm permits me to enter username and password, blanks the > screen as if it is doing something, and then returns to its login > screen. gdm doesn't even get to login -- it just gives the black screen > of death. > > I looks as if I will have to investigate another day -- my regular users > are showing up. one step at a time eh? of course you nkow the drill, post the X logs. good luck A
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