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After about three or four reinstalls on a dual-boot XP/Fedora system, I still can not get Fedora to load the GUI. Upon booting the system, I get to the Fedora/Grub loader and select Fedora, and all loads fine, but once the loading is complete, the screen goes black. Does not respond to ctrl+alt+f1 or ctrl+alt+backspace. Think it might have something to do with video card, but I am unsure. I am a nOoB to Linux, so any help anyone could give would be greatly appreciated.....
Sys Specs
Dell Inspiron 600m
1300mhz Pentium M
384 mb RAM
ATI Mobility Radeon 9000 - 64 mb
40 gig hard drive -
Partition 1 - 5 gig - NTFS Win XP
Partition 2 - 5 gig - formatted through Fedora Core Installer
Partition 3 - 30 gig - FAT32
Thanks for your help!
Well when your in the gui br
Well when your in the gui bring up a console and make sure you have root and go into the /etc directory from there use vi and edit the inittab file and change the run state to 3 it will be under something like with Default id or something its near the top and there is comments on the various other run states. If you want it to run into console and not the splashed verison gui just pick 3 which is full multitasking with network support and XFS support.
easy fix
Suggest that you boot in single-user mode and edit the /etc/inittab file and change the runlevel from 5 to 3.
Runlevel 5 on Fedora starts X after startup, while 3 would leave you in a working console.
to boot in single user mode, select the entry in the grub loader that is your linux bootup, and press "e" to edit that. select the kernel= line and press "e" again, and at the end of that line, add " 1" ('space' and '1'). Save changes and hit "b" to continie booting... this will put you in single-user mode... just edit inittab and reboot...
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got it, thanks
thanks for the help, both of you.....
I'm into the console now, and I can't start the GUI using any console commands (startx, gdm, kdm)...methinks it has something to do with a corrupt X...can't say for certain, but thanks again for the help
Black screen
I get the same problem. When the screen goes black, i have to switch the monitor off and then back on and i then have a gui (why? i really don't know but it happens on rh8 & 9, suse 8.1 & 8.2 and fedora core 1) I have a 128ddr nvidia geforce 4 ti 4200 8x agp and once i install the current drivers everything's ok. Although the driver wouldn't work at all until i changed the agp setting from auto to 8x in the bios.
I too am a noob and I don't know if any of that helps, but i thought i'd share my months of increasing baldness with someone :o)
re: no GUI
this could be a problem with your X settings. Run setup from the console to configure your x-server properly (video card n stuff).
if your video card is not supported try selecting the "vesa" driver and it should work fine.
you can also look at /etc/X11/XFree86Config file but its a bit cryptic for the newbie.
Fedora Core 2 Won't Boot At All
I can't seem to get Fedora Core 2 to boot. I had no issues with Redhat 8.0 on a different computer (the install disc are currently unavailable to me) but I tried Fedora Core 2 and it will not boot up. After going to hell just getting the disc to boot (it locks up and gives a drive error most of the time when trying to) I finally got it installed, however, when I went to boot the hard drive... It didn't do anything. Just gave me a blank screen with one flashing line. I'm confused here. I tried to do an install and got the option to upgrade and the previous install was detected as well. So I tried to boot it again. Still the same blank screen with one flashing line in the top left (reminiscent of loading DOS on an old computer). Help anyone?
PC Specs
HP pavilion 510m
HDA Partition 1 - 5 Gigs reserved for backup of windows XP by sys manufacturer
HDA Partition 2 - 35 Gigs - Windows XP
HDB - 10 Gigs - Linux???
Intel 81080E 4MB GFX Card
Monitor: hp pavilion mx70
Processor: Intel Celeron 1.2 GHz
Memory: 128MB
Optical Drive: HP CD-Writer Plus 12x8x40x