On Fri, 2004-01-30 at 10:40, Wayne Jensen wrote: > I just got a copy of fedora and bought a new hard > drive to install it on. I just finished installing > the new hard drive and installing fedora on it. When I > boot into fedora I see a screen where it shows > everything being loaded then the screen goes black and > thats it. Then when I boot into windows it tries to > run compaq system recovery. Am I doing something wrong > here? > -Wayne > > __________________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free web site building tool. Try it! > http://webhosting.yahoo.com/ps/sb/ This probably means that your graphics card is not being detected properly, I had the same trouble There are a few things you can do. restart the machine and boot runlevel 3 how? When you see the grub screen press "e" and use the arrow keys to select the kernel entry - press "e" again. the at the end of the line leave a space and type "linux 3" press enter and then press "b" when at the login [text mode] login as root type the following in order #redhat-config-xfree86 --set-driver=vesa #redhat-config-xfree86 configure your monitor if not probed the use the generics If you still cant get in then try editing the /etc/X11/XF86Config file under the section device you will see the following Section "Device" Identifier "Videocard0" Driver "nv" VendorName "Videocard vendor" BoardName "NVIDIA GeForce 2 MX (generic)" EndSection Under BoardName "NVIDIA GeForce 2 MX (generic)" add Option "USEBios" "no" So it should look like this Section "Device" Identifier "Videocard0" Driver "nv" VendorName "Videocard vendor" BoardName "NVIDIA GeForce 2 MX (generic)" Option "USEBios" "no" EndSection Let me know if this helps Cheers and good luck -- Chadley Wilson <chadley@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
