F7: Can't Start X

[Martin Marques]

Dave Cross escribió:
> 
> That's when it went wrong. The boot sequence got as far as starting X
> when it hung. Further investigation shows that I can boot into
> runlevel 3, but it hangs when I run startx. There don't seem to be any
> error logs written.
> 
> During the boot sequence I see a couple of error messages that mention
> not being able to access /dev/hda5. That bothers me as I thought that
> all disk devices were /dev/sdaX in F7.

Ahhh?!?!

sdaX are SCSI or SATA disks. IDE disks should still be hdaX. What do you 
have in hda5? See /etc/fstab.

> If it helps, the laptop is a Philips X51[1]. But I recently learnt
> that it's actually a rebadged Twinhead D12[2].

Maybe the problem is related to the partition that is giving you 
problems. Else, I would try with the vesa driver (crappy, but it almost 
always works).

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