thank you for all your help guys, the problem was my ATI RADEON 9800 drivers, I had to download those and boot in runlevel 3 to install them after doing that everything works fine, except my modem (see my other post for that) ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jeff Vian" <jvian10@xxxxxxxxxxx> To: <mailing-lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>; "For users of Fedora Core releases" <fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Wednesday, May 05, 2004 11:55 PM Subject: Re: Fedora Core 1 Install problem: X-window ? > > > mailing-lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > > >hi, > > > >I have been posting several times today. > > > >I am having a lot of problems to install Fedora Core1 on my system. > > > >First of all, when I tried to boot from the cd I tried to install in grafical mode, but when anaconda started all I got was a white screen with my mouse pointer on it, i could not move the pointer, and nothing happened at all. > > > >Then somebody here gave me the tip to try and install in text mode, so i did that and I was able to install Linux completely. > > > >But there were problems when I first started the system, I got the screen that gave the startup procedure but the system froze when it tried to load firstboot. > > > >Again I posted and Alexander and iludwig gave me the advice to edit my grub config and change it to > >kernel /vmlinuz-2.4.22-1.2115.nptl ro root=LABEL=/ hdd-ide-scsi norhgb confirm > > > >so that is what i did, i anwered all the questions with yes in order to start as much services as possible, i did the same when I came to firstboot. > >Miraculously i got the welcome screen from firstboot, it said that there were some steps ahead in order to complete the system configuration, i clicked the next button... and again the system froze. > > > >So, I conclude that there must be a problem with the Xwindow system as everytime it is loaded something seems to go wrong (correct me if I am wrong) > > > >Could somebody tell me what to do? > > > > > When booting, at the splash screen/menu press "A". then add "3" at the > end of the line that comes up. > this will boot you to a text login (run level 3) and you can fis what is > wrong with X there. > Another reboot will bring it back to the graphics login. > > >Matt. > > > > > > > >
