Thank you Charles. I've been spending most of my time researching possible compatibility/driver issues with my sata and other controllers. But in booting to run level 3 at your suggestion I can do everything I want (for now), so it seems that the fundamental problem I am having is with X. (BTW, the graphical boot loader doesn't seem to be an issue. I can boot to multi-user non-graphical mode whether rhgb is included in the grub kernel line, omitted or set to "quiet.") So it seems I need to bone up on X.org, find the counterpart to /etc/X11/XF86Config, adjust the settings to those suggested for my monitor (Planar 1910M, which *is* detected) and then try a graphical boot. I'll search for pertinent threads but if anyone has encountered a similar problem I'd appreciate some time-saving advice. > On Tues June 08, 2004 at 12:50:13 AM charlescurley charlescurley com wrote: > To eliminate X as the problem (I doubt it, but worth a try), edit > /etc/inittab and change the run level from 5 to 3, or even 2 or > 1. Look for something like this, and edit the last line: > > # Default runlevel. The runlevels used by RHS are: > # 0 - halt (Do NOT set initdefault to this) > # 1 - Single user mode > # 2 - Multiuser, without NFS (The same as 3, if you do not have networking) > # 3 - Full multiuser mode > # 4 - unused > # 5 - X11 > # 6 - reboot (Do NOT set initdefault to this) > # > id:3:initdefault: > Or, if the install will let you, initialize to boot to run level 3, no > X. > You may also want to edit grub.conf to remove "rhgb" from the command > line options for your kernel. It would be safer to copy the stanza you > want to create a new boot option, and remove "rhgb" from that one. If > X is the problem, then rhgb may also be a problem, although you appear > to be getting beyond it. Allan Schindler
