On Tue, 04 Sep 2007 07:42:24 +0200, Bo Berglund <bo.berglund@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >On Mon, 3 Sep 2007 21:54:58 -0600, Charles Curley ><charlescurley@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >>On Mon, Sep 03, 2007 at 10:53:20PM +0200, Bo Berglund wrote: >>> This is a more appropriate subject for the thread where I would like >>> to get some advice on how to actually succeed in getting Fdora7 to run >>> in a virtual machine under Microsoft VPC2007. >> >>> >>> 1) VPC2007 emulates a Trio64 video card, but unfortunately not 100%. >>> The 24 bit color depth mode is not supported unless the VESA driver is >>> used. The S3 Trio64 driver's usage of 24 bit color breaks the display >>> completely. >>> >>> 2) VPC2007 emulates the keyboard and mouse as PS/2 devices. THis was >>> not a problem until recently when the Linux kernel acquired a bug of >>> sorts when it does not recognize the PS/2 mouse out of the box. No >>> mouse means no install... >> >>I don't use Microsoft products, including VPC2007, so this is a guess, >>not a known working solution. >> >>To avoid both of these, I would try a text only installation. At the >>end of installation, before rebooting, I would edit /etc/inittab to >>come up in run level 3 (no X). >> >>You can then reboot, and use system-config-display to set up the >>display. Once you have the display where you want it, and you are >>comfortable that you can restart X multiple times, change the run >>level to 5 if you like. >> >>You can always boot into run level 3 by appending " 3" to the command >>line in grub. > >I modified the start options on the first boot by adding 3 to the list >of parameters I used previously. >THis brought up a character based set of screens that were much like >the ones I had glimpsed behind the graphics mess on the graphics >screens. :-) >So I used these to continue the install through. When I was done >Fedora started a sequence of commands on the black character screen >and finally stopped at the screen I am currently on with a prompt: > >Fedora release 7 (Moonshine) >Kernel 2.6.21-1.3194.fc7 on an i686 >localhost login: > >THis did not happen in the graphics version, I seem to recall just >this line there too but then Fedora automatically continued, now it >just sits there. >What am I supposed to do now? Remember that this is the very first >boot after installing the files so there are no user accounts created >yet for example. That is supposed to happen in the following screens. > >Seems that I got further in any case and maybe I am on to something... > >Do I log in as root maybe? > I tried login as root and got a # prompt. Then tried system-config-display and X started and showed a config screen where I could set the colors to thousands (corresponds to depth 16) and the screen to a Generic LCD panel with resolution 1024x768. However, when I hit the OK button the panel disappeared and there was only a blank black screen in front of me.... Only way out was a reset of the PC followed by a renewed boot with the extra parameters but now without 3. This brought me finally through it all without corruption and on to a login screen where I could get into Fedora as root and add users etc. I have yet to see how I can get the system to reboot without interference with the extra parameters, though. Question: Is there some config app where the boot options can be set or do I have to manually edit grub.conf??? Bo Berglund
