On Mon, 2010-08-23 at 10:18 +0300, geoffrey mendelson wrote:
> When I tried to install UBUNTU 10.04, which I did because I have 2
> other UBUNTU systems and don't want to hassle with something else,
> including the alternate (text installer), or server (text only)
> versions, it installs fine, but crashes on reboot. If I boot into
> single user mode it crashes, if I boot into just a kernel, e.g. "init=/
> bin/bash" it's fine.
Weird. My first guess is that the X-Server is started when it ought not
to be started.
> So it is not a linux problem per se, but a problem with UBUNTU
> accessing the graphics processor.
>
> Is there another distro that does not do this? One that I could
> install for example on a computer with a serial console?
Debian Lenny doesn't start the X-Server when the computer is rebooted in
single user mode.
> I don't want to spend a lot of time going through the startup maze to
> find the one command that kills the system. It causes an instant
> reboot, so there is no log, and no way to see it happen, by the time
> it has happened, the computer is rebooting. :-(
Could be that something else is out of order in the motherboard, in
addition to the graphics processor. How about the sound card, for
example?
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