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Pa2U wrote:
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<div><font face="Arial" size="2">Greetings all</font></div>
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<div><font face="Arial" size="2">I used to run RHL7.3, dual booting,
on a Sony Vaio laptop. When I tried to upgrade to FC1 I seemed to be
successful except that quite a few apps and utils on the GUI did
absolutely nothing when I clicked them. When I tried to "fix" such
anomalies by updating (via up2date) I really shot myself in the foot,
it seems. Things went from bad to worse so I tried to reinstall FC1
from the CDs (which check OK by media check). Although that install
went without hitch, bootup now ends up with only a mouse pointer on
a blank screen. The pointer moves, over the entire screen, at least.
Unfortunately, that will only amuse me for 30 to 40 minutes at a
stretch. I really should expand my horizons and search for more, don't
you agree?</font></div>
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<div><font face="Arial" size="2"><Ctrl><Alt><F##>
does nothing, and my MCSE training has left me ill prepared for real
computer diagnosis that I now need. I don't even know how to force a
boot into text mode, much less how to figure out where my Xwindows
config went wrong (as it used to work, and I can still find my old
files on the HD).</font></div>
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<div><font face="Arial" size="2">Now that I let the cat out of the
bag regarding my perspective of experience I will expect the (perhaps
deserved) hazing for ever having had any affiliation w/ Big Bill, but
that's another story. Can any compassionate soul out there point me in
a reasonable direction to diagnose this and get back in operational
mode, please and thank you???</font></div>
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<div><font face="Arial" size="2">Humbly,</font></div>
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<div><font face="Arial" size="2">Pa</font></div>
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well... lets see... for a text mode boot you probably need to add the
single parameter to the kernel in grub (select the entry, press e (or p
for password if you have one and then e), select the second line, press
e again and add single at the end of the line). this should leave you
in front of a command promt in runlevel 1 (sort of command prompt only
safe-mode in windows but without the GUI). to start everything except
the GUI you might want to switch now to runlevel 3 ("init 3" is the
command). Try posting any errors you see from now on to the list and
well se how we can help you.<br>
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BTW, why Fedora Core 1 and not Fedora Core 2?<br>
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Cheers,<br>
d3vi1<br>
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