Guest KDB9000 Posted December 2, 2004 Report Share Posted December 2, 2004 it installed with some problems the first time but i got around that and it ran. then i had to reinstall it cause i found a bigger hard drive around. now it is having boot trouble. i have narrowed it down to the point where it runs init 3 (runlevel 3). i have got a prompt and ran init 3 and got the same error. i have tried to get around it but the MB has every built into it and i have the downloaded verison so the drivers arn't all there. i have the drivers on another CD but cause i can't get in to install them, they don't help. what i would like to know is what is causing the problem. i have tried reinstalling and going back to the first HDD. i have read though some post but none looked to have the same problem. i can get to a command prompt if that helps but i am not sure what to do from there. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pmpatrick Posted December 2, 2004 Report Share Posted December 2, 2004 Sounds like your getting to a command prompt but the graphical system called X is not loading. Boot to the prompt again, login with your user name and password at the command line login and try running: $ startx That will either send you into a gui or return an error message. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adamw Posted December 2, 2004 Report Share Posted December 2, 2004 No, it doesn't - it sounds like he can boot to runlevel 1 only. runlevel 5 is graphical environment, runlevel 3 is multi-user console environment, runlevel 1 is single-user mode. His problem is getting from 1 and 3. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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