On Wed, Dec 31, 2008 at 4:37 AM, John Summerfield debian@herakles.homelinux.org wrote:
I then switched to runlevel 5 and tried to login as root.
The screen displayed some junk, but I did get a login screen of sorts. I tried to login, the login failed but there was no comprehensible message, the fonts were badly distorted. After that, nothing comprehensible displayed and I could not crash X or switch to a text console.
What graphics card do you have? If it's ATI, try adding "nomodeset" to the kernel boot line in grub ...
MEF