[Herefordshire] Re: Mandrake misbehaving

[Noel McG.]

Hello,

Thanks for your help everyone.

However I was starting to get freeze ups and then it would not boot up.I
have given it up as a bad job and started again from the beginning and
installed afresh.

I think we all wasted enough time on it.  Have a good weekend.

Noel.

--
'If all else fails - read the manual.'


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mark Broadbent" <markb at wetlettuce.com>
To: "Herefordshire Linux Users Group." <herefordshire at mailman.lug.org.uk>
Sent: Friday, June 03, 2005 3:43 PM
Subject: Re: [Herefordshire] Re: Mandrake misbehaving


> Noel McG. wrote:
> >>Sounds like you X configuration or some of the filesystem got corrupted
> >>and it is stopping the X server from starting (given that it was working
> >>and now isn't).  Can you post the /etc/X11/XorgConfig
> >
> >
> > bash shows file does not exist.
> > /etc/X11   shows as directory only
> >
> > (or something named very similar) configuration file,
>
> The configuration file in the directory /etc/X11 - it is actually called
> /etc/X11/xorg.conf
>
> > /var/log/Xorg.0.log
> >
> > I am denied permission to this one.
> >
> > I seem to be unable to get in as su or admin root, at the moment I can
only
> > log in as localhost or loclahost root.
>
> In that case you'll need use the rescue disk to examine the disk as root
> and restore the root password.
>
> >
> > and the
> >
> >>output of lspci,
> >
> >
> > I do get an output for this.   However there is a difficulty here. I am
> > using a KVM switch Linux/Windows to do this.  I have only the "A" drive
on
> > Linux to transfer anything through.   Am I able to copy to A from the
bash
> > output?
>
> Yes. Put a formatted disk in the drive and say:
>
> $ mount /mnt/floppy
>
> which should work but you may need to be root... if it does work then
> you simply do:
>
> $ lspci >/mnt/floppy/lspci.txt
>
> then finally:
>
> $ umount /mnt/floppy
>
>
> Thanks
> Mark
>
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