[Mageia-discuss] Mageia 2 Experiences

[imnotpc]

On 04/26/2012 01:58 PM, Frank Griffin wrote:
> 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.

I think you misunderstand. This is what happens using the default boot. 
The safe boot give the HAL failure error.