F10 i386 preview install on gateway MX7120 fails to start X

Mon Nov 17 01:11:56 UTC 2008

On Sun, Nov 16, 2008 at 10:49:18PM +0100, Mads Kiilerich wrote:
> Robert P. J. Day wrote, On 11/16/2008 10:26 PM:
> >  
> >>And, have you tried booting with "nomodeset"? Does that work?
> >
> >  why, yes ... yes, it does.  and i'm not too proud to ask ... what
> >exactly did that accomplish?

It unbroke your X server.

> Or even better: perhaps you can find 
> an existing similar bug in bugzilla.

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=464896
with 53 comments in it plus all "duplicates".

   Michal