Re: [CentOS] Can't login after installing Centos 5.5

2010-10-03 Thread Ron Loftin
On Sun, 2010-10-03 at 16:37 -0400, Phil Schaffner wrote: > Peter Crighton wrote on 10/03/2010 08:19 AM: > ... > > It's the config for the video card - it was set to 24 bit depth. > > Changing to 8 allows it to boot (it's a Matrox Millenium card). I'm > > not overly bothered by the low colour depth

Re: [CentOS] Can't login after installing Centos 5.5

2010-10-03 Thread Phil Schaffner
Peter Crighton wrote on 10/03/2010 08:19 AM: ... > It's the config for the video card - it was set to 24 bit depth. > Changing to 8 allows it to boot (it's a Matrox Millenium card). I'm > not overly bothered by the low colour depth (it's going to be a NAS > server for file backup) but is this a com

Re: [CentOS] Can't login after installing Centos 5.5

2010-10-03 Thread Peter Crighton
On Sat, 02 Oct 2010 14:14:25 -0400, you wrote: >On Sat, 2010-10-02 at 17:55 +0100, Peter Crighton wrote: >> At no point can I get to a text login screen (Ctrl-Alt-F1) so I can't >> even debug it! >> >> Can anyone suggest what is wrong or how to overcome it? > >Boot in verbose mode to runlevel 3 b

Re: [CentOS] Can't login after installing Centos 5.5

2010-10-02 Thread Phil Schaffner
On Sat, 2010-10-02 at 17:55 +0100, Peter Crighton wrote: > At no point can I get to a text login screen (Ctrl-Alt-F1) so I can't > even debug it! > > Can anyone suggest what is wrong or how to overcome it? Boot in verbose mode to runlevel 3 by hitting a character at the start of the boot to get a

[CentOS] Can't login after installing Centos 5.5

2010-10-02 Thread Peter Crighton
I've done a clean install of Centos 5.5, largely using the default options. Those I changed were: * Changed to KDE Desktop * Added Samba and NFS4 to firewall * Changed NTP servers to those of my ISP When Centos boots what I think is a progress bar shows no progress but eventually (probably about t