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Suzanne Payne yellowdog-newbie@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com
Fri, 21 Feb 2003 14:27:57 -0000


--On Friday, February 21, 2003 3:14 pm +0100 Mark Nieuwenhuizen 
<mark@marknieuwenhuizen.nl> wrote:

> YDL boots up from disk but doesn't go into a GUI of anykind.

If you've not selected a GUI login this is normal.  If you did select GUI 
login during the install, then you have a video problem.


> Then my screen starts flashing with the inital login question, goes on
> black for a couple of seconds, flashes teh login for half a second etc
> etc. So no time to enter any login.

Sounds like a video problem.  Try passing different video arguments at the 
box where you chose to boot MacOs or Linux.

Suzanne