Dell PowerEdge 420SC Dead upon FC3 install !!!

Edward edward at tripled.iinet.net.au
Fri Nov 26 02:35:02 UTC 2004



Winston Ojeda wrote:

> Well that did not do it.
> It did go much farther that time though.
> It loaded all the devices, network, services and right
> when you thing is going to display the login screen...
> BANG!
> Monitor input is gone and so it the keyboard.
> 
> Any more ideas?
> 
> Winston

Sounds like a misconfigured X server to me.

I'm assuming it runs fine in text mode?

Regards,
Ed.

> --- Alexander Dalloz <ad+lists at uni-x.org> wrote:
> 
> 
>>Am Fr, den 26.11.2004 schrieb Winston Ojeda um 2:28:
>>
>>
>>>Has anyone every tried FC3 on a Dell PowerEdge 420
>>>server. Installation was flawless. I configured
>>>everything (graphical mode). It got ready to
>>
>>restart
>>
>>>for the last time. Instead of being greeted by the
>>>familiar login screen a BLACK screen was there.
>>>And is to no wonder, the monitor light went yellow
>>
>>on
>>
>>>me.  The keyboard had no lights either but the
>>
>>server
>>
>>>is still running.
>>>If I hard reboot, I see the boot up screen boot
>>
>>loader
>>
>>>start. Displays a screen full and then dead again.
>>
>>>Winston
>>
>>Did you at least search a bit in this list's
>>archive? You would have
>>found a lot of hints.
>>
>>Boot without the "rhgb quiet" kernel parameter by
>>editing at grub boot
>>screen.
>>
>>Alexander
>>
>>
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