LiveCD loads X, but doesn't start GParted itself

Hi there,

I'm not sure whether or not to hope this is an FAQ - if it is, then I apologise for asking this question, but at least in that case the problem ought to be easy to fix! My Googling is not not finding any hits for this, however.

I am using the GParted Live 0.4-6-1 CD to boot a Dell PowerEdge 2800. As it boots it shows some errors (kernel messages?) complaining about hda being an invalid size or something, but I don't think this is anything to worry about, as it does also seem to find the multiple logical drives (sda, sdb) of the RAID array that I'm interested in. I selected keyboard layout & British English, then it gives me the options regarding the X server. I think I chose the default [0] - telling it to do everything automagically - and then X loaded, however it does not seem to get past that. I see the grey background and a big cursor in the shape of an X, but nothing else.

Does anyone have any suggestions, please?

I don't think it will help to go back and manually select graphics mode, because the X server is loading.

I hoped to be able to open a different virtual terminal and see if there was any logging output, or log files that I could examine, or anything, but pressing alt-f2 does nothing. The cursor moves around on the screen, so the computer hasn't locked up completely.

I should probably mention that I'm accessing the machine remotely, and the live CD is mounted using the remote media feature of a DRAC (Dell Remote Access Controller). I don't believe this is the cause, unless gparted fails silently if the media is slow to load.

Alternatively, any other suggestions for enlarging the C: partition of a Windows 2003 server would be much appreciated. SystemRescueCD version 1.3.1 is working just fine with the DRAC's remote media function, but the command-line version of parted supplied on there bails out complaining that it doesn't resize NTFS.

Thanks in advance for any suggestions,

Stroller.