On Sun, 2005-04-03 at 22:57 -0400, David Curry wrote: > Mark Mecum (teknowiztx) wrote: > > >Aaron, and anyone else reading, > > > >I have been doing some digging, and I believe the problem may be related to the graphics card and the hardware discovery. The item that appears to be the bug is that Anaconda comes up with it's graphical install fine, but after reboot the system is unable to start the x server. Believe it may have to do with the funky onboard via graphics setup on this mobo. > > > >Still not sure why this does not work the same a the anaconda gtraphical mode configuration, but will try an addon graphics card to check. > > > >any other suggestions, send them on. > > > >mmecum > > > > > > > > > Have you tried booting your system with the rescue CD? If you have the > CD and it will boot the system, you could then edit /etc/inittab on your > harddrive to provide for booting into a console window > > /etc/inittab > id:3:initdefault > > Then working from cli you might be able to run system-config-display > and configure to something that will allow use of the X window system. > > > > Or add 3 to the end of the kernel command line via grub. Hit a key when you get the booting... message, then hit "a" to append to the command line. Then add " 3". This will boot into runlevel 3 and should put you at a text-based prompt to login. Bob...
