FC4 does not work, "out of the box" for me; GUI/X11 fails

[Daniel B. Thurman]

Ok, here is what I recall....

1) Starting from scratch, insert the boot cd
2) Select the linux text, to do a text-based installation
3) Follow all the steps, choose your software (I chosed 'everything')
4) When it reboots one of two things came up for me:
  a) At first, Grub reported a text-based message: "GRUB>"
     So, I was perplexed and did not know what to do.  So,
     instead of trying to solve this one, I chosed to reboot
     with the Fedora Rescue disc
  b) After the second time I re-installed from scratch, grub
     came up find with the splash screen and all that, but then
     when I came to figuring out how to modify grub to boot runlevel
     3, it was (and still is) not possible to me to figure out this
     step.  Please reply and tell me how this one is done please
     so that I know how?  Of course this would be the easiest place
     to get into runlevel 3 and yum update and my problems could have
     been MUCH easier.
5) Fedora Rescue mode
  a) Hit 'Enter', the default mode
  b) Drivers are loaded (if any), then choose language, then keyboard
     and anaconda starts up.
  c) "Setup Networking" appears
     Choose 'Yes', then configure as needed (I choosed manual, not DHCP)
     and added the IP address and mask., Click 'OK' then complete by
     adding the gateway, primary, secondary, tertiary as needed and
     click 'OK'
  d) In 'Rescue', choose: 'Continue' (it will attempt to find the sysimage)
     and allow you to mount the sysimage if found.  I haven't tried the directly
     to command shell mode at any time.
  e) Mount the sysimage: chroot /mnt/sysimage
  f) Now, you are "in" the environment (whatever it is), and you may think that
     you are in single user mode but you have networking active.... so... you
     may think that you can yum update here.... right?

     Well... *some* files do yum install - but others that as it seems to me
     mostly the ones with library installations appear to send out error messages
     that the scriptlets are failing and messages in the errors shows the %prenum,
     %postnum type messages.

Hope this helps....

Dan

-----Original Message-----
From: fedora-list-bounces at redhat.com
[mailto:fedora-list-bounces at redhat.com]On Behalf Of Les Mikesell
Sent: Friday, October 28, 2005 12:33 PM
To: For users of Fedora Core releases
Subject: RE: FC4 does not work, "out of the box" for me; GUI/X11 fails


On Fri, 2005-10-28 at 14:06, Daniel B. Thurman wrote:
> If you knew
> that you just have to put boot run-level at level 3 to BYPASS
> the GUI System, how can you do it? 

You can interrupt the default boot and change this at boot-time.

> Ah, ok... but then you have this FEDORA RESCUE DISK... and
> all I would need to do, is to mount the sysimage, edit the
> inittab file and reboot -- HOWEVER -- before you mount the
> sysimage, there is a NETWORK CONFIGURATION step - and you
> are thinking - AH!  YUM UPDATES!!!  I would bet you a pretty
> penny YOU HADN'T THOUGHT OF THAT!!!
> 
> I did.  So I reported it so that others won't fall into this trap!

I wish you had been more specific about how if failed.  I would
have expected this to work too.  Do you remember any details
about what it did wrong?

-- 
  Les Mikesell
   lesmikesell at gmail.com


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