copy to replacement hard drive

[Steven Didier]

I had the same problem when I upgraded to 4.0 and then a gain when I 
put a new HD in my Tibook. For me the problems were the monitor 
settings, device settings and screen settings in XF86 config file. 
Pasted on the bottom of the messages are the relevant section from my 
/X11/XF86Config file. I hope this helps!
Steve 
 Section "Modes"

	# Generated
	# D: 79.815 MHz, H: 51.963 kHz, V: 60.003 Hz
	Identifier     "Modes0"
	ModeLine     "1280x854" 79.8 1280 1296 1408 1536 854 855 858 866 
-hsync -vsync
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
	Identifier   "Monitor0"
	ModelName    "Apple Titanium PowerBook G4 (2002)"
	UseModes     "Modes0"
	HorizSync    30.0 - 100.0
	VertRefresh  50.0 - 60.0
	Option	    "DPMS"
EndSection

Section "Device"

	#Option	"ShadowFB"	"true"
	#Option	"fbdev"	"/dev/fb0"
	#BusID	"PCI:0:16:0"
	Identifier  "Card0"
	Driver      "radeon"
	VendorName  "ATI Technologies Inc"
	BoardName   "ATI Radeon Mobility M9"
	Option	    "UseFBDev" "true"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
	Identifier "Screen0"
	Device     "Card0"
	Monitor    "Monitor0"
	DefaultDepth     24
	SubSection "Display"
		Depth     8
		Modes    "1280x854"
	EndSubSection
	SubSection "Display"
		Depth     16
		Modes    "1280x854"
	EndSubSection
	SubSection "Display"
		Depth     24
		Modes    "1280x854"
	EndSubSection
	SubSection "Display"
		Depth     15
		Modes    "1280x854"
	EndSubSection
EndSection

Section "DRI"
	Group        0
	Mode         0666
EndSection


On Sat, 19 Feb 2005 12:50:52 +0100, Geert Janssens wrote:
> On Saturday 19 February 2005 09:32, Andrew Zschetzsche wrote:
>>  This last week I got a new harddrive for my iBook G4, so I put the new
>>  one in and put the old one in a USB2.0/FireWire enclosure.  So far I've
>>  been able to:
>>  1. Get my OS X partition copied over
>>  2. Installed YDL 4.0 from the CD's to properly set up my linux
>>  partitions
>>  3. Used a Gentoo bootstrap CD to copy over the contents of the old
>>  partition to the new partition, making sure to preserve permissions.
>>  4. Booted under YDL on the new disk and ran ybin.
>> 
>>  I can boot YDL fine, no problems, but I can't start X properly.  GDM
>>  begins, but then dies after five attempts.  When I startx under my user
>>  account, i can (but it just boots AfterStep).  If I startx as root, (i
>>  know, not a good idea), i get errors regarding starting KDE.
>> 
>>  So GNOME (at least GDM) and KDE, or something between the two, is
>>  broken.
>> 
> You could start by reading /var/log/messages to see which error 
> exactly gdm or 
> X is reporting. This often helps already finding the culprit.
> 
> Additionally, you could look into the following link:
> http://www.linuxgazette.com/issue46/tag/5.html
> 
> The article is quite old, but it has helped me on a similar problem. Cause 
> could be a stale PID (lock-)file for gdm, or X. This might be  why X 
> refuses 
> to start.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Geert Jan
> 
> 
>>  Any ideas, or any suggestions on how I should duplicate the partitions?
>> 
>>  Thanks,
>>  Andy
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