ubuntu 7.10 won't boot

[Chris Gow]

On Wednesday 23 January 2008 16:01:36 chris-n/jUll39koHNgV/OU4+dkA at public.gmane.org wrote:
> I can't boot my ubuntu 7.10 system.
>
> I'm getting this:
>
> Starting up...
> Loading, please wait...
> usplash: Setting mode 1280X1024 failed
> usplash: Setting mode 1152X864 failed
> usplash: Setting mode 1024X768 failed
> usplash: Using mode 800X600
> kinit: name_to_dev_t (/dev/md1) + md1(9,7)
> kinit: trying to resume from /dev/md1
> kinit: No resume image, doing normal boot...
>
> Ubuntu 7.10 cpc tty1
>
> I don't know if my (brand-new) hard drive is crashing or what. I went into
> the BIOS to see if there was any IRQ conflict with my emu1212m pci card (I
> haven't been able to initialize it under alsa) - I made a change and
> rebooted and got the above. So, I went innto the BIOS and restored default
> settings. I'm still getting the above error. At the prompt I logged in as
> root and tried to run init 5 - that did nothing - same for init 3. init 1
> got me to another screen but I don't know what to do in init 1 anyway.
>
> Any ideas? I'm emailing this through webmail on another machine. i guess
> you can tell from the above that I have set up RAID not that I would know
> how to restore from RAID but I thought the point of RAID is that if a hard
> drive goes the other will take over.
So you can log in as root, can you also log in as normal user? What happens if 
you run startx? Does your X start up then? 

I'd also check your /var/log/Xorg.log and if startx doesn't work maybe 
your .xsession-errors in your home directory

-- chris
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