Re: FC6 install reboots to a blank screen and hangs on 'enabling /etc/fstab swaps'

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Kevin Kempter wrote:
Hi List;

I recently installed FC6 on a desktop with a flat panel monitor. After the install completes, during the reboot the monitor goes blank with a message that says 'out of range'

I tried to do a CTL-ALT-F1 and I could see the boot sequence text but the boot process was hung at this :
enabling /etc/fstab swaps

The GUI boot message display and the text message display differ at certain points. The text messages are mostly up to when the GUI boot loader starts to take over.

You might be able to enter append mode during bootup and remove rhgb and quiet from the boot loader then press enter to boot into runlevel 5 (graphic display manager mode). Since you are getting an out of range on your monitor, you would probably still get a blank screen once booted into runlevel 5. If this happens, reboot as described below.


It hung there for over 10minutes before I shut the box off.

Thanks in advance...


You might be able to press a key to show the boot menu, then press the a key to get to the boot line. From there you might be able to backspace out the rhgb quiet entry and simply put the number 3 after a spacebar to separate the 3 from the previous entry. This will take you to runlevel 3 where you get a login prompt. You can type your user name and password in for one terminal and root for another terminal. You can run '/sbin/lspci |grep VGA' to give some information regarding your video card is. You might also be able to switch your X driver from whatever it currently is to vesa with a text editor. (like nano or mcedit or one of the other text mode editors.) If you do, pass on the information about what driver it is trying to use when you edit the file. After you change the driver to vesa, you might be able to get X up and running in your regular user terminal by typing startx in your regular user terminal.

I doubt this is explanation is complete, but it should get you started into GUI mode without encountering the out of range error again.

Jim

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