if you append ' 3' (without quotes) to the kernel line, will start in runlevel 3 (multiuser,network,text) and then you can edit /etc/X11/xorg.conf , replace Driver "something" line with Driver "vesa" save and reboot. <div>2007/7/23, Justin Conover <<a href="mailto:justin.conover@gmail.com">justin.conover@gmail.com</a>>:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> Is there some switch to boot with vesa instead of detecting your video card and using "nv" for example? I have a newer mobile 8400 card and the screen just goes black when it starts the gui. I have been trying to build a rawhide dvd since F7 doesn't detect my dvd drive after the initial boot, which seems kind of odd that it boots and loads up and then ask cd/http/nfs and then can't find the dvd driver. FC6 installs but doesn't find the tg3 nic so updating turns into a problem :) For what it is worth, Debian testing network boot installs fine and it is on a 2.6.21 kernel. I have tried some boot.iso's from rawhide the past week, but they just stop on unpacking initrd.blah. -- fedora-test-list mailing list <a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="mailto:fedora-test-list@redhat.com">fedora-test-list@redhat.com</a> To unsubscribe: <a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-test-list" target="_blank"> https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-test-list</a> </blockquote></div>