How long did you watch the black screen? I have seen as long as a
two-minute wait while some networking problem "times out", before X
launches and I get a login prompt. At the time of the problem, other apps
also took a long time to launch. I had to go through and clean up my
networking settings, which took care of the problem.
Dave
On Thursday 05 April 2001 03:08, Darek KUZARA said:
> Hello All,
>
> Recently I have re-installed Linux Mandrake 7.2 with an option to
> start-up GUI after boot. I have defined Gnome as WM and screen
> resolution 1280x1024 with 16 bit colours (vga mode for lilo 794).
> However the installation type was "user" (not expert which I used to use
> before) and therefore my default boot manager is Grub. During the
> process of the Mandrake installation I tested the X and it was fine.
> However when I boot, Aurora boot works fine till it starts to launch WM,
> screen becomes black. I cannot not switch to text console either. The
> only remedy at this point is hardware reboot which file system (ext2)
> dos not like very much ;-).
> I booted my Mandrake from an installation CD in recovery mode in order
> to view some X files or Grub files but apparently I did not find
> anything to change.
>
> Any help appreciated.
>
> Regards,
>
> Darek
