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тАО10-14-2005 07:21 AM
тАО10-14-2005 07:21 AM
Fedora help
The install seemed to go well; I have the dual boot prompt and windows starts and runs ok.
But when Fedora boots, I get the white screen again.
There is an option that says to press "I" for interactive boot. I tried "i", "i" followed by Enter, "I", etc., but it just goes through the motions and brings up the white screen.
Oh, there is an initial mouse pointer ("X") that comes up briefly, then goes away.
How do I fix that?
Also, the dual boot defaults to Fedora; how do I change it to windows?
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тАО10-14-2005 08:24 AM
тАО10-14-2005 08:24 AM
Re: Fedora help
Press the followin keys:
Any key to stop the autoboot
a
3
ENTER
b
You will start in rulevel 3, so X won't be started. You can run system-config-display --reconfig.
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тАО10-15-2005 01:16 AM
тАО10-15-2005 01:16 AM
Re: Fedora help
I stopped the auto boot.
While at the boot menu, with Fedora selected, I pressed a. Nothing hapened.
Then I pressed 3, still nothing hapenned.
I pressend ENTER and the boot process begins. I immediately press b.
The process continues as before. I get to the Welcome step and it again says to press 'I' to enter interactive startup.
No matter what I do from this point, I get the white screen.
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тАО10-15-2005 01:30 AM
тАО10-15-2005 01:30 AM
Re: Fedora help
Problem is it asks a lot of questions on starting processes and I have no clue as to which I should or should not start. I tried replying n to all and got to a screen that says
"I could not start the X server due to some internal error. Please contact sys admin to diagnose. In the meantime this display will be disabled. Please restart gdm when the problem is correcte."
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тАО10-15-2005 01:59 AM
тАО10-15-2005 01:59 AM
Re: Fedora help
However, the user I configured 'does not exist' and the root password is incorrect. I guess I'm going to have to re-install and see how that goes.
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тАО10-17-2005 12:58 AM
тАО10-17-2005 12:58 AM
Re: Fedora help
First off let's get booted:
When you power up the laptop, after the BIOS start up, you should get the GRUB window that says something about booting linux (Fedora) in 10 seconds, press a key to interrupt.
Press the any key if your keyboard has one (bad joke).
Just interrupt the GRUB boot by pressing a key. You should now have a GRUB display showing your dual boot options (and no count down timer - if there is a count down time, press a key again (any key will do!)).
Next, you can alter the boot options for this boot.
If the root password is wrong, you can boot into single user mode and reset the password:
Making sure the splash screen still says something about GRUB, make sure the Fedora option is highlighted.
There are some instructions at the bottom that say:
"Press enter to boot the selected OS, 'e' to edit the commands before booting, 'a' to modify kernel arguments before booting, or 'c' for a command-line."
Press 'a'
The screen should now change to show you a line which may say something like:
grub append> ro root=label=/ rhgb .....
At the end of the line, add the word 'single'
This tells the boot process that you want to boot the laptop into single user mode.
Next, hit return.
Your system *should* boot up straight into a command prompt.
From here you can set the root password:
sh-3.00# passwd
Enter the new password, then re-enter it to confirm.
A word of warning: Bear in mind that your original password may have been set 'incorrectly' if your keyboard layout is not the same as that which the system thought it was!
Avoid using characters that may change depending on your keymap For example, '@' and '"' characters are often swapped about. As are '├В┬г' (UK Pound sign) and '#').
This will sort out the root password.
Next, you can edit your boot config so that Windows is the default boot option:
(Assuming you know how to use the 'vi' editor)
sh-3.00# vi /boot/grub/grub.conf
You will see a line that reads something like:
default=0
This tells the system which menu option is the default one to boot from.
Further below in the file, you will see at least two lines that begin:
title
These are the start of your menu options.
I'll assume that they are something like:
title Fedora Core 4 ...
title Windows ...
Everything in GRUB starts counting from zero (not one). So the first option (Fedora) is option zero. The second option (Windows) is option one.
Change the:
default=0
to read:
default=1
*IF* Windows is the second option. If windows is the first option, then I guess the defaults I've written above would be the other way around!
Next, you need to sort out X.
Currently, your laptop is in single user mode and you won't be able to run any X config type apps.
Execute:
sh-3.00# init 3
This will tell the system to change from single user mode to run level three (multi-user, non-graphical).
You will need to log in (as root).
Login using your new password and execute:
# system-config-display --reconfig
If all goes well, you should have a graphical gui start up which allows you to configure your X11 display.
For more info on how X11 works, google about and you should find lots of material.
Top-tip: Google has a linux specific search engine:
http://www.google.com/linux
Go from there.
Regards,
Andy Bruce
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тАО10-17-2005 01:12 AM
тАО10-17-2005 01:12 AM
Re: Fedora help
I can remember that the only option at the grub menu was to enter 'p' to enter a password for security something or other. No 'a' or anything else.
We will see in a while.
Thanks.
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тАО10-17-2005 01:20 AM
тАО10-17-2005 01:20 AM
Re: Fedora help
Sounds like you maybe set up a password for the GRUB loader which stops ner-do-well individuals from trying to access your system in the way I just described!
Could it be that the password that you thought you'd set up for root was actually the GRUB loader password?
Anyway, if this happens again, enter the password, then you should be able to do what I described earlier!
Any problems, give us a shout!
Regards,
Andy Bruce
ps Some points wouldn't go a miss! ;-)
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тАО10-17-2005 01:32 AM
тАО10-17-2005 01:32 AM
Re: Fedora help
I'll post back as soon as I'm done with the install.
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тАО10-17-2005 03:20 AM
тАО10-17-2005 03:20 AM
Re: Fedora help
It says "command not found"
I tried a space after ...-display as in
'system-config-display --reconfig'
but that did not work, all I get is the help text. What am I doing wrong?