FC2 AMD64 install error!

[Ram Kumar]

Many thanks Peter,

This looks like a great set of details for beginner like me!
I will check this today & post the feedback

Regards, Ram


> -----Original Message-----
> From: fedora-list-bounces at redhat.com 
> [mailto:fedora-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Peter
> Sent: Tuesday, August 31, 2004 3:25 PM
> To: fedora-list at redhat.com
> Subject: Re: FC2 AMD64 install error!
> 
> 
> Am Di, den 31.08.2004 schrieb Ram Kumar um 8:49:
> > - When installing it does not initialize the X window system
> > - I tried installing in text mode, then switching to X 
> Windows, but it 
> > fails
> > - When at text login prompt, it keeps refreshing the display in an 
> > attempt to start X Windows system
> 
> To avoid the flashing you may do the following:
> 
> After turning on your machine at the first screen you see 
> grub and a list of operating systems, in your case may be 
> just on: Fedora. Move the selection bar to the Fedora line and press
>    a
> Now you can edit the startup parameters. Add the letter
>    S
> to the end of the line. Your system will startup in single 
> user mode, which is a traditional text mode console.
> 
> You may edit the file /etc/inittab and change the line
>   id:5:initdefault:   into   id:3:initdefault:
> 
> So the normal startup procedure will not start the xwindow 
> system but just a text console login.
> 
> 
> Now you can try to fix the xwindow system without flickering. 
> You can try to start xwindows by the command
>    startx
> 
> 
> >   - Gives some error related to VESA driver & says 'unable 
> to start X 
> > Windows system'
> > - I installed my last copy of RedHat 9, which works 
> beautifully on the 
> > same system
> >   - Checked the settings from this install for VESA driver, monitor 
> > type, display frequency, etc... & applied to FC2 x86 64, 
> but it still 
> > does not start X Windows
> 
> 
> As a first step you may try to automatically configure your 
> graphics subsystem by
>   system-config-display  --reconfig
> 
> It is a second try, maybe there went something wrong during 
> installation.  You can test your effort by the comand
>   startx
> 
> It it doesn't help, you should inspect the xwindow log file using less
>    less /var/log/Xorg.0.log
> or may be additionally
>    less /var/log/Xorg.0.log.old
> 
> for error messages. Usually you get a clue what to change. 
> Otherwise post it here together with information about your 
> graphics hardware.
> 
> Additionally you may compare the xwindows configuration files 
> of your Fedora system and your RedHat system.
> Fedora:
>    less  /etc/X11/xorg.conf
> Red Hat
>    less  /etc/X11/XF86config
> 
> (the Red Hat file name my be a little bit different, I just 
> can't remember exactly, but you will recognise it).
> 
> 
> Good luck
> 
> 
> Peter
> 
> 
> 
> 
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