On Sat, 27 Dec 2008 16:06:01 +0000, I Beartooth wrote: [....] >> Today I decided to tackle my main machine. Anaconda launches -- >> but before it starts asking about language, keyboard, etc, I get the >> dread "signal out of range; set to 1680x1050". [....] > After several more failures, I tried for lack of a better idea, > hitting tab on the "install or upgrade" line and simply typing " linux > text" at the end of the line it gave me. > > Believe it or not (and I don't quite myself yet), that seems so > far to have worked. [....] > > Stay tuned. [....] That went to completion, telling me to reboot -- without mentioning removing the DVD, let alone ejecting it. I did, and snatched the DVD as soon as it finished shutting down. The new grub stage 2 did still give me a choice to boot into poor old XP, and it did work. It had also added F10 on top of the last couple of F9 kernels -- with the highlight on the latest F9, oddly. I arrowed up to the new top line, and it booted F10. I've been testing it : the gnome-terminal works, ssh works, and Pan works (fortunately). Of my browsers, Opera launches, though with a false recollection of which session was last; Firefox, Galeon, and Epiphany all fail -- and so, fatal error if not fixed soon, does Alpine. Otoh, yum update is still running, and those things are among the updates. Nutshell : tentative pass -- but oh what a foul kludge to get it! -- Beartooth Staffwright, PhD, Neo-Redneck Linux Convert Remember I know precious little of what I am talking about. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
