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On Fri, 20 Jan 2012 19:57:31 -0800 (PST), BRM wrote: |
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> As the system starts to boot-up, it switches like it is going to start |
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> X - changing a video mode somehow. I don't have xdm in the runlevels |
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> yet, so it can't be starting XDM at all.This seems to happen right |
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> after udevd is started, while it waiting on the udev events. The system |
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> then just shuts off (power remain on - fans are still on, but monitors |
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> are off, and nothing responds, etc.) , and it never completes boot-up. |
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Do you have another computer you can use to test if it is alive with ping |
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or SSH? This is occurring around the point at which KMS kicks in, you may |
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be just losing your display but still have an otherwise working system. |
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Try adding nomodeset (or intel.modeset=0) to your kernel boot parameters |
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to disable KMS. |
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Neil Bothwick |
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