[NTLUG:Discuss] blank screen with blinking cursor in upper left
Fred James
fredjame at fredjame.cnc.net
Wed Jun 13 22:44:15 CDT 2007
>>All
>>The symptom is "blank screen with blinking cursor in upper left" on boot
>>- also cannot ssh to the box
>>Action so far - I figured now was as good a time as any to move the box
>>from Mandrak 9.1 to Mandriva 2007 - install went well, video looked good
>>all through it - on reboot however, returned the same symptom as above.
>>
>>Thank you in advance for any help you may be able to offer
>>Regards
>>Fred James
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All
The answer on this one seems to have been the hard drive - even though
the hard drive was "visible" to the install. I reinstalled putting /
and MBR on hde1 and bingo, off and running. Right now the problem seems
to be that the system (I reverted to 9.1) doesn't really like / and MBR
on hde1, so tomorrow I plan to either remove hda (the suspected problem
drive), and make the current hde become hda - or at least swap some
cables - we'll see how it goes - and then install 2007 on the new hda.
Even if nothing else, I suppose I may learn something. By the way, (the
old) hda was visible to the system after putting / and MBR on hde1
My current suspecian is that the first sector of the old hda is toast -
does that, or anything similar, make sense?
Regards
Fred James
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