[clug] Startup problem

[Simon Burton]

On Sun, 11 Apr 2004 10:26:20 +1000
Steve <sunpower at pobox.com> wrote:

> Dear All,
> 
> I am fairly new to Linux, so please be gentle.
> 
> I have a Redhat 7.2 system, running RAID1, which has developed a problem 
> on startup.  I have it set to go straight to a graphical login screen 
> and all has been fine until the other night.  It started up OK until it 
> came to the step where it showed the text login , which is usually 
> followed immediately by the graphical login screen, but it produced and 
> continues to produce, a screen which is totally unreadable. 

try ctrl-alt-F2  
to get to text mode terminal #2.

Simon.


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