Help - Grey Screen

[Andy Green]

joelhp at proaxisweb.com wrote:
> Thanks for the suggestions.
> 
> I did try >linux text and >linux nofb to no avail and then ended up using an
> adapter to a vga monitor from the DVI out and just used a standard vga monitor
> and it seems to be installing fine so far.  I hope later to be able to get the
> driver working for my monitor after the full install.

Ah well that's not too bad, looks like it was just coming out of the 
other head in the end.

> A separate question,  If I had the choice to install Fedora onto an intel/mac
> rather than the G5 dual 2.7 I have now, could I be limiting my ability to grow
> with linux releases and functionality by staying with the non-intel chip?  I am
> trying to avoid building myself into a box (yes..pun intended) that could raise
> issues in the future if those issues could be eliminated with the newer
> intel/mac.  The overall object of this install was to turn this box into a
> reliable testing server for beta postgresql projects.

PowerPC appears to be, well, not dying, but moving into non-PC niches 
like Xilinx FPGAs and Playstation 3, so I guess the main worry would be 
about Fedora eventually dropping support for it in the next years.  I 
guess if it costs something to move to Intel, I would stick with the 
PowerPC box for now since you mainly want serving action from it which 
should be easy to deliver well, and if PowerPC continues its decline you 
can move in a couple of years.  Yellowdog is a distro that is predicated 
around PowerPC so you could always migrate to that as a backup plan. 
But if it costs nothing to use an Intel box, you are on a safer bet with 
Fedora on an Intel architecture I would think.

-Andy