grub issue

[michael miller]

Thanks Ben.  I'll try that.  As usual with intermittent problems it
hasn't recurred since you wrote this.  It can go a week or more without
a problem and then boot into text mode multiple times in one day. Truth
is, this machine boots so fast it's only a minor issue at the moment.
My big concern is that one day it won't recover, although I guess that
would make debugging a bit easier. I'll let you know the outcome next
time it happens.

Mike

On Thu, 2012-10-25 at 21:48 -0400, Ben Scott wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 23, 2012 at 9:22 PM, michael miller <k4ghp at comcast.net> wrote:
> > I get a normal command line login prompt and can log in.  Everything
> > appears completely normal until booting halts at the command line login.
> 
>   OK.  The next time that happens -- you get a text-only login prompt
> -- login normally, and run the command
> 
> 	startx
> 
>   That will start the X GUI from a text-only command prompt session.
> If that doesn't work, either, it's likely some problem with the video
> card or driver.  If that works, it's prolly something to do with what
> services/options the system is starting with.
> 
> > The reason I thought that it might be a grub issue is that the grub menu
> > lists as one option entering "c" to boot to a command line.
> 
>   That "c" option refers to going to the GRUB command line, where you
> can manually issue commands to prepare to boot Linux.
> 
> -- Ben