Single User Mode

[eproc]

I installed, having difficulty last night, having to boot into safe mode to get the system to even boot.  Once installed, I was able to boot up, but upon running updates and some installs, the system fails to boot and boots into single user mode.  After reading in the forums, I believe it's related to the fglrx driver and it's failure to work with my ATI HD4200 driver in my notebook.  I also did a huge update/install before rebooting.  I've tried running drakxconfig from root, but seem to be unable to make it work.  I'm doing a fresh install, going to do some updates, reboot, and see if I can find some information on the forums on getting the ati driver working, as to what is the correct process.

I really want this to work.

[menotu]

What specs does your system have eproc?

[eproc]

Gateway Notebook
AMD Athlon™ II X2 2.0 gHz
4 gb RAM
500 gb Hard Drive
ATI Radeon HD 4200 graphics

Were there more specs that you were referring to?

[davey]

Did you install from the 10.07 updated CD? Which kernel are you using?

[eproc]

I did a fresh install from the 10.07 cd that I downloaded yesterday.  Had to boot into VESA mode for it to boot in the live CD mode.  I did run all updates, but as I understand it, the kernel is not updated unless you specifically ask it to do so, so it may be still running whatever the default was.  I will look into it tonight to find out what kernel it's running as when I left for work this morning, it was reinstalling, but I think it may have hung up in the process.  I have a pretty mainstream notebook, so hopefully I can get this up and running. 

[LLVMech_63]

Out of curiosity did you check the md5sum of your ISO ??

On a co-workers toshiba laptop with ATI graphics, I forget which model right now,  to get the live disk to boot when it dumped me to commad prompt I had to login as root and mv /etc/X11/xorg.conf xorg.conf.old then logout login as guest and startx this would allow KDE to load and I could see the desktop. I had to do the same the first time after install also.    Then I used synaptic to re-install the ATI drivers ... a reboot and was done .

YMMV  ... but worth a try ...