Failed Install (additional gripes)
Michael K. Johnson
johnsonm at redhat.com
Fri Aug 8 15:26:21 UTC 2003
On Fri, Aug 08, 2003 at 08:47:17AM -0400, Chris Elston wrote:
> to install more stuff later. Reboot, go through the "first boot" deal and
> then...nothing. Well, not quite nothing. White on black terminal comes
> up with login prompt instead of graphical login. Catch is, my keyboard
> doesn't respond. So even if I wanted to login or change to other virtual
> terminals (Ctrl+Alt+F2, etc) I'm out of luck. Tried rebooting again, just
> to see if it had something to do w/ the "first boot" going wrong, but no
> dice. Tried reinstalling using the default "desktop" set of packages
> thinking that I may have installed "too much" and some unnecessary
> service was making my laptop hang. Eventually I have the same problems,
> hangs after graphical boot and goes to a unusable text-based login.
Have you tried booting with acpi=off?
(Yes, I ask this about every new kind of possible hardware-related
strangeness that first shows up now, it's amazing the variety of
problems we've seen caused by acpi...)
michaelkjohnson
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