newbie with installation troubles

[Chadley Wilson]

On Fri, 2004-01-30 at 10:40, Wayne Jensen wrote:
> I just got a copy of fedora and bought a new hard
> drive to install it on.  I just finished installing
> the new hard drive and installing fedora on it. When I
> boot into fedora I see a screen where it shows
> everything being loaded then the screen goes black and
> thats it. Then when I boot into windows it tries to
> run compaq system recovery. Am I doing something wrong
> here?
> -Wayne
> 
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This probably means that your graphics card is not being detected
properly, I had the same trouble

There are a few things you can do.

restart the machine and boot runlevel 3

how?

When you see the grub screen press "e" and use the arrow keys to select
the kernel entry - press "e" again.
the at the end of the line leave a space and type "linux 3" press enter
and then press  "b" 

when at the login [text mode] login as root

type the following in  order

#redhat-config-xfree86 --set-driver=vesa
#redhat-config-xfree86

configure your monitor if not probed the use the generics 


If you still cant get in then try editing the /etc/X11/XF86Config file
under the section device you will see the following

Section "Device"
        Identifier  "Videocard0"
        Driver      "nv"
        VendorName  "Videocard vendor"
        BoardName   "NVIDIA GeForce 2 MX (generic)"
EndSection
                                                                                                                             Under BoardName   "NVIDIA GeForce 2 MX (generic)"

add 
Option "USEBios" "no"
So it should look like this

Section "Device"
        Identifier  "Videocard0"
        Driver      "nv"
        VendorName  "Videocard vendor"
        BoardName   "NVIDIA GeForce 2 MX (generic)"
	Option	    "USEBios" "no"
EndSection

Let me know if this helps

Cheers and good luck


-- 
Chadley Wilson <chadley at pinteq.co.za>