Issue With mdadm and/or X

[Brian Fahrlander]

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Scott Bowdich wrote:
>>     I've never known the glory of Linux-on-a-laptop, nor have I tried
>> feisty...but I'll betcha the mdadm-thing is a red-herring; the most
>> operative message you've got is the one about X bailing.
>>
>>     Have you tried a "safe" install?  One of the text-only or "VGA"
>> settings?  Maybe there's some heartburn trying to figure out your video
>> card.

> I've tried all those things booting from CD, but I still got nothing.
> When I do the upgrade via the package manager, it works cleanly, but as
> soon as I try to reboot the whole thing up and dies (mdadm, Xserver,
> etc).  I'd try reconfiguring X, but the fact that the LiveCD doesn't
> work either tells me that'd be an exercise in futility.
> 
> For the sake of information, I'm not running a RAID either...just the 2
> partitions, for / and swap.  Halp!

    Hmm...and you're sure the disk is ok?  Have ya gone through all the
self-checks?

    I have a similar problem on an old, very-much-wants-to-be-a-firewall
motherboard that just_don'_stinkin_want_to_boot.  (Unless it's
Fedora...) I've tried every combination of desktop, alternate, and
server on each Dapper and very-early-Edgy, and it looks like it's just
gonna have to go in the dumper.  I'm *hoping* you haven't found the
same- I can't imagine that, on new hardware.

    Well, have you gone through the release notes? Turned off ACPI and
such? (It's a longshot, but maybe it'll shake something lose we can use...)

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