On Mon, Mar 19, 2007 at 06:05:05PM -0600, Dennis G. Wicks wrote: > Greetings; > > After many starts and stops and restarts I got Deb > installed via the web. GRUB was installed, did a > shutdown/restart and I can't boot to Deb/linux. It > spews out all sorts of messages too fast for me to > read them and then locks the system. I have to hit > RESET to restart it. sounds like GRUB is not the problem. sounds to me like you're having trouble with X. did you select the "desktop" option when installing? if so, then try this: when the grub menu comes up, use the arrow keys to move to the debian single-user line. it might be labeled "Debian GNU/Linux, kernel... (recovery mode)". now press enter to boot into single-user mode. this will prevent the X system from starting. You should get to a prompt asking for the root user's password. enter that and you're in at init level 1. That is the maintenance mode. assuming you're still with me, you should be able to reconfigure the x system from here: dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg (or xserver-xfree86, if you're running sarge). review all your selections for the video card and monitor and try again. to see if it works, you would type "exit" on the command prompt to exit single user mode and continue on to multi-user mode which will start x for you again. > > I can boot to Windows OK, fortunately. this suggests that grub is working and that your problem is x. report back! A
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