On Saturday 07 Jun 2003 11:22 am, Ben Francis wrote:
I'm getting a bit frustrated.
Firstly, I'm not talking about booting off the CD-ROM, I can do that fine. I've installed Knoppix to the hard disk of a computer, with great ease I might add, so it's now meant to be a Debian system (see other thread somewhere or other...)
Every time I boot the system from cold it freezes half way through booting X at a sickly grey screen and an immobile X cursor in the centre. If the computer has been turned on a while and I shut it down, it boots up again fine. I don't quite know what to do, I suspect it could be a hardware problem? The hardware is all quite a few years old and from various dubious second hand locations. (A poor geek has to get his kit from somewhere, can't afford to buy it new!)
Thanks in advance
Ben "tola" Francis
Most likely a RAM problem. Happened to me a few years ago. Try re-seating them or swapping them round. If your problem was the same as mine this will not cure it but the failure point changes. Solution is new RAM.
Ian