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Re: 4.0: Won't boot past "GPM MOUSE..."

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Erik Troan)
Fri Oct 25 11:08:55 1996

Date: Fri, 25 Oct 1996 10:51:57 -0400 (EDT)
From: Erik Troan <ewt@redhat.com>
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On Thu, 24 Oct 1996, Tony Bruno wrote:

> I'm in a bind.  I can't get Red Hat 4.0 to boot!  I did a clean install, 
> got all of the RPMs installed with no problem, let the machine reboot, 
> watched it start, saw a message reading "GPM Mouse services"...and the 
> machine stops.

Try booting the machine in single user mode ("linux single") at the LILO
prompt. That should get you a shell.. Try running:

	sh -x /etc/rc.d/init.d/gpm start

Erik

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