Linux doesn't boot after installation

[Jim Cornette]

Joshua Jones wrote:
> I installed FC6 today and did not have any problems during the 
> installation.  However, once it was installed it will not boot.  It 
> brings up the screen where it starts to bring up the different 
> services.  Then X Starts as I can see the mouse cursor for about 1 
> second then the screen goes blank and the key board is useless.  Any 
> help is appreciated thanks Joshua Jones
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Since you have an older Nvidia video card, you might need to use the 
binary only driver for the legacy version driver from a repo that 
contains it.

If you need to get X up so you can use the GUI, you will need to edit 
the /etc/X11/xorg.conf file and replace the "nv" with "vesa" which 
should give you video enough to run X.

After you set up the repo, you might need to run the below. Look in the 
archives for different repos which supply the driver.
yum install xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-legacy.i386

Jim