Booting into Bash

Booting into Bash
 Thu, 1970-01-01 00:00
anti_tank
Posts: 3
 Joined: 2007-01-18

I used CF to boot up with Vortex86, it came through all the starting script and jumped to a bash command line

[mythtv@localhost mythtv]$

I dont know how the booting up process should look like. Then dont know is this right or wrong. What am i supposed to do next ?

tried to get su but the password is not my set password

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-Anh-

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 Tue, 2007-01-23 09:40 Re: Booting into Bash
pando
Posts: 36
 Joined: 2006-12-04

Hi,

You get bash prompt probably due a xorg error. Ather you get bash prompt try giving command
[mythtv@localhost mythtv]$startx
and look for errors. Or take a look at the xorg log file nbcat
[mythtv@localhost mythtv]$nbcat /var/log/Xorg.0.log

About root password: you used 4.0.1 release with "Root Password" dialog added to install CD? I need to know this, because if you used it, means that there is a problem with that form and your root password was not correctly setup.
Try using default root password: 4root4 and see if it works.


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 Tue, 2007-03-20 22:55 Booting into bash (X not starting)
randycasburn
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 Joined: 2007-03-20

X does not start for me either. This is because there is no driver available for my VGA adpater. I'm running (a non-via chipset) inside a Virtual PC session that provides a generic VGA adapater interface. Is it possible to provide a generic VGA driver to run the MythTV distribution in a limited way on a generic VGA adapter?
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Thanks,
Randy


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 Tue, 2007-03-27 21:51 Hi Randy, You could use
panic
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 Joined: 2006-09-26

Hi Randy,

You could use startx -- -configure to generate a config file for your setup and then copy that file to /etc/X11/xorg.conf to start the XWindows system (or run startx -- -config /root/xorg.conf.new)


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