<div dir="ltr"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 10:18 AM, geoffrey mendelson <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:geoffreymendelson@gmail.com">geoffreymendelson@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
I have a computer with a bad graphics processor on the motherboard. It boots fine in text mode, and I can install Windows XP on it. As long as it stays in VGA or text mode, and does not access the graphics processor, it runs fine. It's a nice little machine, relatively fast and small. Perfect to put in a corner and use as a file server, video conversion processor, etc. It can not be fixed.<br>
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When I tried to install UBUNTU 10.04, which I did because I have 2 other UBUNTU systems and don't want to hassle with something else, including the alternate (text installer), or server (text only) versions, it installs fine, but crashes on reboot. If I boot into single user mode it crashes, if I boot into just a kernel, e.g. "init=/bin/bash" it's fine.<br>
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So it is not a linux problem per se, but a problem with UBUNTU accessing the graphics processor.<br>
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Is there another distro that does not do this? One that I could install for example on a computer with a serial console?<br>
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I don't want to spend a lot of time going through the startup maze to find the one command that kills the system. It causes an instant reboot, so there is no log, and no way to see it happen, by the time it has happened, the computer is rebooting. :-(<br>
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Thanks in advance,<br>
<br></blockquote><div><br>I think most distro's have 'nox' and/or 'nofb' or equivalent... <br><br>-- Shimi<br></div></div><br></div>