On Thursday 20 Jan 2005 08:07, Kinsey wrote: > New to Linux, I successfully have used the Suse retail > distribution, but someone suggested I try Fedora, so I > have downloaded installed the latest Fedora but it > goes through a process of appearing to boot up, then > asks for a "localuser logon." I did not assign any > username or logon except for the root password, and > have been unable so far to locate any FAQ help that > addresses this. Is there a command or default username > and password that I'm not aware of that will either > allow me to log on or do away with this process and > allow completion of the boot process. Suse did not > present this problem. > AMD64 bit processor, Gigabyte mobo with nvidia > chipset, gigabyte/nvidia video card, 1.5 gigabytes of ram. It would sound like one of the following: 1/ You chose to have the machine boot into text mode. 2/ You chose a server installation with no X. 3/ There's something wrong with the graphics configuration and X is refusing to start. Log in at that prompt with the root user name and password, then type #telinit 5 Let us know what happened. If that switches the login to graphical mode, you'd need to make a change to the '/etc/inittab' file, since this symptom tells us you installed in text mode. (probably) It that didn't switch into graphical mode, it'll give you some error messages. Post those messages here. -- Tony Dietrich ------------- We are all born mad. Some remain so. -- Samuel Beckett
