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Re: 4.0: Won't boot past "GPM MOUSE..."
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Reilly)
Fri Oct 25 11:40:07 1996
Date: Fri, 25 Oct 1996 10:16:46 -0500
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From: John Reilly <reillyj@onramp.net>
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Related question: During bootup, I get an error message concerning "gpm
-t" (the system still boots, and the mouse works). The
/etc/rc.d/inid.d/gpm script refers to "/etc/sysconfig/mouse" file which is
not on my system. What is supposed to go in this file?
John
>> 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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