My Screen goes of During Start up

[Charles Curley]

On Sun, Jan 04, 2004 at 09:01:02AM -0700, Charles Curley wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 04, 2004 at 02:41:59PM +0000, Mudiaga Otokpeya wrote:
> > Hi Everyone,
> > 
> > I installed fedora core in some of my client systems
> > in my cafe. Which went on fine, but at some point in
> > time I decide to change the unprobed monitor type to a
> > generic crt type with 1240x746. 
> > 
> > Now the system cannot boot to X window environment
> > becuase of the wrong setting of the display. I dont
> > want to reinstall the OS. Is there anything I can do
> > to change the display setting before it boots to the X
> > server just like Safe Mode in Windows.
> 
> Yes.
> 
> Use GRUB's boot editing facility to add "init=3" to the command line
> for the kernel. E.g:
> 


And to avoid all this in the future, see: "So Your Monitor Died",
http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=5405

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