On Fri, 16 Feb 2007 07:56:44 +0000, Andy Green <andy@xxxxxxxxxxx> took time to say the following: >Phil Meyer wrote: >> Charles R. Buchanan wrote: >>> I installed Fedora 6 yesterday and when booting up, there is no video. >>> The monitor is on (indicator light is green). During the install, it >>> correctly identified the video card so I assume it loaded/installed the >>> correct drivers for it. >>> Anyone ever experience this? >>> >>> Thanks! >>> >>> >> >> I suspect that rhgb (red hat graphical boot) is the issue. > >My first thought too... > >> Boot to a rescue CD, do the chroot, edit /etc/grub.conf, or >> /mnt/sysimage/boot/grub/grub.conf if ya don't wanna do the chroot thing. > >You don't need to go that far. At the Grub menu, press 'A' and use the >cursor and delete keys to remove the "rhgb" part of the line, and add a >"3" (without the quotes) at the end of the line. Then hit enter to boot >just the once with that modified commandline. > >This will stop the graphical boot progress display AND stop you starting >X after boot. Log in with the text login prompt and start meddling. I >guess I would first > > - edit /boot/grub/grub.conf to remove the rhgb bit permanently > > - try "telinit 5" to start X, maybe it can work (probably not) > > - if it wasn't happy, edit /etc/X11/xorg.conf and change the video >driver to "vesa", try again > >-Andy Thanks Andy. Will give that a shoot momentarily. Had to kill the download, it was taking way too long and I have to still get ready for work! :-)
