Booting up Moblin

For some installations of Moblin 2.0 Final release, many have encountered the problem of not able to boot up after successfully installed it. It hangs up at the Moblin logo splash screen and freezes. Those who installed Moblin 2.0 Final in VirtualBox will also face the same dilemma. I have figured out a way to get out of that boot-up problem. I am able to boot up all my installations of Moblin, including those on Atom embedded PC as well as on my VirtualBox virtual machine. However, take note that the performance of the Moblin is still not so responsive as it should be in a normal boot-up.

- Upon beginning of booting, press Alt-F1 to get into the boot loader selection screen.


-Press 'e' to edit the boot command, and on the next screen, move down to select the 2nd item and press 'e' again to edit the command.


- press backspace to remove the last 2 command parameters 'quiet vga=current' and replace with '3' to boot into runlevel 3 (text mode)

- press ENTER and back to the previous screen, with the 2nd item selected, press 'b' to boot the system

- The system will boot in runlevel 3 (text mode). Login with your root password.

- Edit the file "/etc/inittab" and go to the last line and change the command "/usr/sbin/moblin-dm" to "/usr/sbin/gdm"

- Save the file and reboot.