said Curt Howland: | That is how I would do it, in order to ensure that any hardware issues | were resolved before putting TDE on the machine. I would not want to | have anything where I could mistake TDE for causing the error, where | it was actually an issue of graphics compatibility or such. while we're at it . . . in december i built a new machine, which has nvidia graphics instead of the previous ATI. moving the drives over went smoothly enough, but booting is peculiar: if i just boot from the grub2 screen, it goes along for a bit and then locks solid before getting fully booted. if, however, i choose to boot in repair mode, which oddly goes into framebuffer and then produces a normal text-based screen of choices and select "boot normally," it boots . . . normally. i suppose i could look upon this as a security feature, but i'd just as soon fix it. there seems to be a lot of silliness that gets loaded up front, such as the framebuffer stuff, for reasons not at all apparent to me. ideally, i would have a nice, no-frame-buffer boot, all in text, all printed to the screen in nice, pure text mode, until the time comes for the starting of X. indeed, if after logging in i had to type startx as in the old days, that would be fine. but at this point i would settle for a working default boot. any ideas? -- dep The shortest distance between you and playing great acoustic guitar: the great new instructional DVDs from Marjorie Thompson, available at www.MarjorieThompson.com

said Michael Howard: | > in december i built a new machine, which has nvidia graphics instead | > of the previous ATI. moving the drives over went smoothly enough, but | > booting is peculiar: if i just boot from the grub2 screen, it goes | > along for a bit and then locks solid before getting fully booted. if, | > however, i choose to boot in repair mode, which oddly goes into | > framebuffer and then produces a normal text-based screen of choices | > and select "boot normally," it boots . . . normally. | | You don't say what OS or Version but I would take a look at the grub | command line to she exactly how it's booting. It sounds like the | original command line from your previous install. It needs tweaking by | the sounds of things. a debian-derivative -- ubuntu or kubuntu, don't remember which -- 12.04 LTS, 64-bit. and yes, i agree it needs tweaking -- just don't know the tweaks. the whole frame buffer thing is a little nutty to me. could have dealt with it in lilo, but i do not know grub or grub2 at all well. -- dep The shortest distance between you and playing great acoustic guitar: the great new instructional DVDs from Marjorie Thompson, available at www.MarjorieThompson.com