Fedora 10 installation on Sony Notebook VGNFW235J

[Phil Meyer]

Michael D. Setzer II wrote:
> Have a strange issue trying to install Fedora 10 on a students new Sony 
> Notebook. The initial  install process has the screen going to a weird gray 
> screen after the cd process, so the gui process would not work. Then tried it 
> with a text install, and the process went thru completely, but on boot only 
> came up with a text login. Startx would give the same gray screen....
>
> I was able to copy an xorg.conf file from a machine with vesa setup, and this 
> time startx did come up, but it never did the startup process that is normal.
>
> Is there some option or something that needs to be done to get a good install 
> on the Sony notebook??
>   

Installing in text mode causes anaconda to ASSUME that you want to start 
in run mode 3 (no X).

edit /etc/inittab and set the default run level to 5

Good Luck!