[Mageia-dev] Mageia3-B2 will no longer boot

Fri Mar 22 16:39:24 CET 2013

On Wed, 20 Mar 2013 23:23:06 +0000, Colin Guthrie wrote:
+
+> Have you tried switching to ctl+alt+f2 to see if you get a text login?
+
+Yesterday I started a boot of  MGA-cauldron to try that - and it
+successfully booted!
+   So did a 470+-s/w update, after which it successfully booted again.
+   
+Today, however, it only properly booted twice out of a dozen attempts.
+
+Sadly, on one of the occasions I again tried to get the netbook's display
+onto an external monitor (which had been reporting 'Out of range' when
+connected VGA-VGA) by changing the X server to use 800x600 (which is
+supported by the external Viewsonic).
+   Unfortunately that not only did not solve the problem but on the netbook
+screen the display is now squashed into the bottom left-hand corner of the
+screen, and although I can get into MCC/Hardware to change the resolution
+back to 'Auto', it does not revert to the native 1024x600.
+  So my Mageia-3B2 is unusable, though it has served its purpose*.
+  
+(N.B. Nevertheless, Mageia3 did much better than Ubuntu 12.04  and Mint 13,
+both of which insisted on running the netbook at 800x600)
+  
+(* It has shown that the MGA3 Broadcom WiFi does work (although as I posted
+on January 30th ("Beta32 and Broadcomm WiFi") I had far better success
+connecting to the hotel's WiFi with Mageia-2 than I did with MGA3-Beta2,
+which would seldom connect).
+
+-- 
+/\/\aurice 
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