On Tue, 2010-08-31 at 21:22 -0400, Bob Cochran wrote: > Someone kindly pointed me to > http://alt.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/nightly-composes/ to grab a Fedora > 14 live image and I helped myself to the "Deskstop" x86_64 image > yesterday. Installed this on an old x86_64 system with an Asrock > motherboard. The installation actually went pretty nicely and was quick, > and it did sort of boot. But the boot process came to a halt with an > error message that I've forgotten and dumped me into a bash shell, when > I was expecting a graphical login screen. A 'yum update' didn't fix > things. Running 'startx' from the bash prompt didn't work. I did ome > Googling and maybe I'll check the grub configuration for 'nomodeset' > entries to remove. Maybe I'll just install Fedora 13 on this hardware > and wait a bit on 14 even though Firefox x86_64 in Fedora 13 appears to > bring the entire graphical system to its knees. Or maybe there is a bug > in metacity. Is it the same thing I am getting that says to hit control-d to continue or type in root password for maint? If so, hit control D to continue, then should get it again, and this time put in root password. Once at a shell, just hit "init 5" and that will get you to graphical login. It's a bug or some sort and guess still being worked out. Think it's a systemd thing, or something along those lines. Mike Chambers -- test mailing list test@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/test
