f8t3 Live on ibm a20m: how do I login?

[sean darcy]

Thomas Springer wrote:
> sean darcy:
>> Trying to run live cd on something, I've tried to run it on an ibm a20m 
>> notebook ( 2000 vintage, pentium 3 700mz ).
>>
>> The gdm throws up the login screen asking for the user name, and says 
>> user fedora will login in 60 seconds.
>>
>> The seconds counter decreases, then goes negative - but no login.
> 
> ;-). I've not seen this.
> 
>> Is there some special login? I've tried root.
>>
>> sean
>>
> 
> 
> Just enter fedora as username and hit <enter> as mentioned in the
> release notes:
> 
> http://docs.fedoraproject.org/release-notes/f8/en_US/sn-Live.html#sn-Usage-Information
> 

I did that. Also tried root.

Then I edited the grub login to init 3. I logged in at the command line 
as fedora ( root also works ).

It died at startx. It showed creating three xauth, then just hung.

FWIW, knoppix works fine.

I'd file a bug, but under what?

sean