blank screen on boot in fc7

[Jim Cornette]

frank.h.vanderlinden at us.army.mil wrote:

> tried both and still same result. last thing i see before a blank 
> screen is starting smartd ok........ then it goes blank.

Have you backspaced out the rhgb quiet portion before entering the space 
bar followed by a three?
This is easiest to edit by pressing the a key for append after revealing 
the menu with any key and followed by the a key. Then you backspace out 
rhgb quiet, add a space and follow with a 3 and press enter. This should 
give you the login prompt where you can login as root or a user. As root 
you could run system-config-display or at least check your 
/etc/X11/xorg.conf file.
This file should at least tell you what driver it is trying to use which 
is causing a blank screen. (Intel or i810, nv or nouveau, other)
Changing this entry for the driver to vesa should at least give you some 
GUI with fair resolution.
Now what editor you use for editing in text mode is up to you. I prefer 
using mc and its built-in editor. I'd run 'yum install mc' followed by 
'mcedit /etc/X11/xorg.conf' and change whatever driver listed to vesa, 
exit the editor, saving the changes and then logging in another terminal 
as regular user and running startx. If it has intel, you could try i810 
instead, if it lists nouveau, you could try nv instead.


Jim

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