Mike Cloaked wrote:
For your first comment about the response of the system to a mistyped
password in kdm I was not aware of - I'll ask if this it was a second
login attempt when I talk to her later - and yes i do have kdm as the
login manager. The status of the bz you referred to linked to an upstream
bug which has not had any reply since the end of August!
On the suggestions for trying to boot a livecd - I did try and after the
POST, it gave "port 00:" at the top of the screen and a line of
"stuff" -
but did nothing further. I now have a new replacement HD which I will
install over the weekend and see if I can then boot a liveCD to configure
it - I'll report back in due course.
This evening I removed the HD and installed the brand new hard drive. The
machine now readily booted to a PartedMagic LiveCD and I was able to
partition the drive to prepare for an f11 clean install which I have now
just completed.
So in this case it turned out to be a total failure of the hard drive - the
machine is less than 2 years old, so a drive failure at this age is
surprising, the more so considering it has always been on a UPS to protect
the mains supplying it. The new HD is a different make to the original, and
hopefully will last a little longer than the previous one! Anyway I am very
glad that this turned out to be unrelated to the operating system, although
I am still trying to get to the bottom of what happened to the other machine
- which was clearly a software issue.
Have a good weekend.
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