And now my computer boots up into a kernel command line screen instead of the GUI type screen where I enter my name and password.
Anyone know what this ##$%@ disk changed on my computer and how do I get it back to normal? Fail safe mode boots ok.
On the LIVECD disk I selected boot from hard drive which worked but after I turn off my computer and restart, it goes back into that command line sign in screen and stays there.
I have 11.2 and KDE 4.3.5. release 0
AMD Athlon Dual Core x64
And now my computer boots up into a kernel command line screen instead of the GUI type screen where I enter my name and password.
Anyone know what this ##$%@ disk changed on my computer and how do I get it back to normal? Fail safe mode boots ok.
On the LIVECD disk I selected boot from hard drive which worked but after I turn off my computer and restart, it goes back into that command line sign in screen and stays there.
I have 11.2 and KDE 4.3.5. release 0
AMD Athlon Dual Core x64
Thanks
Keith_EE, I am sorry to hear you have a problem after trying to load Artistx which is said to be based on Ubuntu Linux. The basic problem here is that we support openSUSE, not Artistx or Ubuntu. When you start a kernel load and you end up at the terminal prompt, are you selecting openSUSE to be loaded? Most often, when a kernel loads, but the GUI does not, it is a graphics issue, but I am not sure how loading a new linux version would cause an existing one to not load its GUI. Perhaps the real problem is that Artistx or Ubuntu are being loaded and will not load their GUI.
I suggest you attempt to get support for Artistx at their Web Site or consider reloading openSUSE. Since we are up to openSUSE version 11.3 and version 11.2 support stops next year, use this opportunity to install openSUSE 11.3. It is my understanding that Ubuntu uses grub2 while openSUSE uses Grub1 and requires some special effort to combine the two on the same PC. I suggest you consider which Linux version did work for you and reload that version on your PC. I would research any other Linux distributions before attempting to have more than one loaded on the same PC.
Yes, the first thing I did was send two emails; one to the mirror site and one to ArtistX. The mirror site just referred me to the ArtistX page and I am still waiting for ArtistX to reply.
I rebooted a few times and wrote everything down as far as what comes up on my screen. The way it worked before is after I turn on my computer, after the initial post screen the “Startup Options” page would load onto my screen.
I usually highlighted and selected the first option, which is the Desktop option, (listed at the end here for reference), and the graphical sign-in page would come up. If I did not select an option, then after 5-10 seconds the graphical sign-in page would come up on my screen.
The only thing I can see that has changed is after I turn on my computer, the “Startup Options” page would load onto my screen and after the 5-10 seconds, or if I select the first option, it would go into the textual command line login page:
Startup Options page, where I highlighted an option and hit the enter button:
Desktop – openSUSE 11.2-2.6.31.12-0.2
Failsafe – openSUSE 11.2-2.6.31.12-0.2
Rt – openSUSE 11.2-2.6.31-rc-rt9-3
windows 1
windows 2
Floppy
I plan to upgrade to 11.3 but I still have unstable audio that I can not figure out how to fix and I wanted to get that corrected before the upgrade. What do you mean by support? From openSUSE? All support I have received is here from other users (thanks everyone who helps) or from my own research.
No, the “startx” command does not work and a whole page of data comes up. If you know how I can capture the text and save it as an ascii text file then I can print it here.
But I think what I really need is to change something in my menu.lst file so when I click on my first option, Desktop – openSUSE 11.2-2.6.31.12-0.2, it runs the GUI stuff instead of going into the console. That is how it worked. But I am unsure what to change or where to find a good tutorial on this.
linux-rr9o:~ # kdesu kwrite /boot/grub/menu.lst
###Don’t change this comment - YaST2 identifier: Original name: linux###
title Desktop – openSUSE 11.2-2.6.31.12-0.2
root (hd0,5)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/disk/by-id/ata-WDC_WD1600JS-22NCB1_WD-WMANM8008603-part6 repair=1 resume=/dev/disk/by-id/ata-WDC_WD1600JS-22NCB1_WD-WMANM8008603-part5 splash=silent quiet showopts vga=0x31a
initrd /boot/initrd
Do you know of a good tutorial for Grub1? I never wanted to install Ubuntu, I only used the LiveCD to check some of the programs on it and also to see if Cinelerra worked.
Cinelerra does not totally work for me on my system. I can add clips, but the live audio recording does not work and another thing that is messed up is when I stop a clip that is playing–the timeline won’t stop and the video freezes. It didn’t work as good in this LiveCD either. So the whole thing is a wash with the exception of me learning more about Grub and the bootup process. lol!
You’re talking about fixing things before ‘upgrading’. Don’t upgrade from 11.2 to 11.3, perform a clean install, certainly after applying ‘manual fixes’. Chances are high that 11.3 comes with a better audio driver, which would solve your problem. Upgrading might make the problem persist on 11.3, my 2 cents.
Ok, this probably means that something is wrong with your video config.
Do you know what video card you have in your machine?
To get at the text, it’s perhaps best to photograph the screenand put the image up in something like imageshack and link to it here…
Well no, since this worked before, it shoildn’t be the menu.lst line, there is something else broken somewhere.
Could you try to add ‘nomodeset’ (wihout the quotes) to the grub line when it shows you the different boot options?
Also, what happens if you boot into failsafe mode?
Yes I can boot fine in failsafe mode and my GUI comes up. I’ve never tried to add ‘nomodeset’ (wihout the quotes) to the grub line, it sounds scary to me.
