Re: GUI screen freeze

[Bob McClure Jr <robertmcclure earthlink net>]

On Thu, Jan 08, 2004 at 12:36:13PM -0800, Bill Hamlin wrote:
> A friend of mine dropped off a server that he had running with RedHat 9.
> I plugged in my serial mouse (he had a bus mouse), and everything else.
> During the bootup everything works great.  It shows a terminal level
> prompt and I can start entering the password, but then the screen goes
> to GUI mode.  It takes about 15 seconds, and then the login screen
> appears.  But I can't enter the login name.  The mouse is also not
> working.
> 
> I can't hit any keys, even ctl-alt-del.
> 
> This is using "grub" to load.  How do I stop the thing from going into
> GUI mode?
> 
> Maybe the mouse being serial instead of bus is the problem (the
> auto-config detect thing saw the bus mouse was gone and I let it take
> that out of the configuration)?
> 
> What else could be wrong?
> 
> Thanks for any help,
> Bill Hamlin

At the point where GRUB is about to boot, hit "a" to append to the
boot command.  Then add a space and a "3" to the boot command and hit
<Enter>.  It should boot to runlevel 3, the text-mode screen.

Then log in as root, and run redhat-config-mouse.  After that, you can
either reboot, or just run "telinit 5" and it will go to runlevel 5,
the GUI-mode login screen.

Cheers,
-- 
Bob McClure, Jr.             Bobcat Open Systems, Inc.
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