On 10 3 , 8 13 , tim1948 wrote:
> I have used both SuSE 10.0 and SuSE 10.2 (i386), though I am not using
> either right now. In both cases I suddenly reached a point where I
> could not boot into X, though the installation remained functional
> with a console login. I shrank the disk space allotted to SuSE and
> installed Ubuntu on the end of the drive, and SuSE is still bootable.
> If I ever figure out what the problem is, I might start using SuSE
> again.

any boot error message


drivers

try this way

after you boot system,press ctrl + Alt + F1 ,login as root

# init 3
# sax2

configuer & save

# init 5

have you get the X ?

tim1948 wrote:

> I have used both SuSE 10.0 and SuSE 10.2 (i386), though I am not using
> either right now. In both cases I suddenly reached a point where I
> could not boot into X, though the installation remained functional
> with a console login. I shrank the disk space allotted to SuSE and
> installed Ubuntu on the end of the drive, and SuSE is still bootable.
> If I ever figure out what the problem is, I might start using SuSE
> again.

Is it possible that you used Nvidia drivers from nvidia.com*, then upgraded
your kernel, rebooted, and now need to re-install Nvidia drivers to create
a module for the new kernel? I'm just throwing that out there because it's
easy for me to do a kernel upgrade and reboot to no X and say "Oh yea,
gotta do the Nvidia thing again." If this is it, make sure you also have
the kernel *source* package installed.

* Don't know whether reinstallation is necessary if you use nvidia driver
RPMs for SUSE, but maybe. I get my scripts straight from nvidia.com

On Oct 2, 6:07 pm, muskycn wrote:
> On 10 3 , 8 13 , tim1948 wrote:
>
> > I have used both SuSE 10.0 and SuSE 10.2 (i386), though I am not using
> > either right now. In both cases I suddenly reached a point where I
> > could not boot into X, though the installation remained functional
> > with a console login. I shrank the disk space allotted to SuSE and
> > installed Ubuntu on the end of the drive, and SuSE is still bootable.
> > If I ever figure out what the problem is, I might start using SuSE
> > again.
>
> any boot error message
>
> drivers
>
> try this way
>
> after you boot system,press ctrl + Alt + F1 ,login as root
>
> # init 3
> # sax2
>
> configuer & save
>
> # init 5
>
> have you get the X ?

Unfortunately, no. I saw something strange in Xorg.0.log, however.
(Remember, I can do anything that doesn't require X.) A lot of font
directories do not exist (/usr/share/fonts/local, /usr/share/fonts/
latin2/misc, and about a dozen others). These directories are
referenced in xorg.conf.

Apart from my puzzlement over how they got eliminated, how can I
restore them? I have a backup of the installation made with TrueImage,
so if I can restore individual files that way, it might work. But I
don't know.

tim1948 wrote:

> On Oct 2, 6:07 pm, muskycn wrote:
>> On 10 3 , 8 13 , tim1948 wrote:
>>
>> > I have used both SuSE 10.0 and SuSE 10.2 (i386), though I am not using
>> > either right now. In both cases I suddenly reached a point where I
>> > could not boot into X, though the installation remained functional
>> > with a console login. I shrank the disk space allotted to SuSE and
>> > installed Ubuntu on the end of the drive, and SuSE is still bootable.
>> > If I ever figure out what the problem is, I might start using SuSE
>> > again.
>>
>> any boot error message
>>
>> drivers
>>
>> try this way
>>
>> after you boot system,press ctrl + Alt + F1 ,login as root
>>
>> # init 3
>> # sax2
>>
>> configuer & save
>>
>> # init 5
>>
>> have you get the X ?
>
> Unfortunately, no. I saw something strange in Xorg.0.log, however.
> (Remember, I can do anything that doesn't require X.) A lot of font
> directories do not exist (/usr/share/fonts/local, /usr/share/fonts/
> latin2/misc, and about a dozen others). These directories are
> referenced in xorg.conf.
>

Those seem normal for many of the systems on which I installed openSuse.
Apparently not all video cards need or use all the fonts.

> Apart from my puzzlement over how they got eliminated, how can I
> restore them? I have a backup of the installation made with TrueImage,
> so if I can restore individual files that way, it might work. But I
> don't know.

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