[Mageia-discuss] Mageia 2 Experiences

[Frank Griffin]

On 04/26/2012 01:06 PM, imnotpc wrote:
> On 04/26/2012 12:33 PM, Frank Griffin wrote:
>> No idea about this.  What about a default boot that used to lock up 
>> with a blank screen ?
>
> Well this is truly odd. It locks up at many different places. I know 
> this sounds crazy but the point it locks up at seems to be related to 
> whether I select the default boot image to boot immediately or just 
> let it time out and boot. It's almost like there is a timer that 
> begins when grub loads and the system locks up a certain time after 
> that no matter where it is in the boot sequence.
>
> This sounds like a hardware issue except that I've been able to 
> install mga1 and openSUSE 12.1 sucessfully on this laptop since my 
> first attempts to install mga2. I've also run an extensive RAM test 
> and everything looks good.
>
What I'm trying to figure out is whether a normal boot with autostart of 
X turned off (as it is now) has video problems.  I suspect that changing 
inittab didn't really change the runlevel for some reason, and assuming 
that unchecking the box in XFdrake did this successfully, I'd like to 
know if a default boot still has the problem.

Leave safe boot out of it for now, as that clearly has problems of its own.