[wellylug] Boot up failures with Mnd 10

[Glen Ogilvie]

Have you tried Control Alt Backspace when it's freezing with the blue screen?  
This should cause X to restart, which may just solve the problem.  no idea 
why it's doing it tho.

Glen

On Sunday 30 May 2004 12:47 pm, Colin Iles wrote:
> Hi all
>
> I wonder if anyone using mandrake 10 has had this problem:
>
> When I boot up it occasionally freezes at the blue screen prior to the
> login screen.  All I am left with is a cross in the middle of the
> screen.
>
> However, I can access a terminal window with Cont/Alt/F2 and can login
> as either myself or root.  I am however at a loss as how to continue to
> load the KDE GUI which presumably would permit me to continue as though
> nothing had happened.  Can anyone please tell me what to write on the
> command line to continue so that I don愒 have to reboot by turning the
> computer off and on again.
>
> Incidentally I have booted up in verbose mode and everything always
> seems to go OK - but then it has never chosen those times to freeze!!
>
> Thanks
>
> Colin