first boot trouble, how to boot to text only

[dasy2k1]

I have jsut installed FC6 on my box taht quite happaly runs suse 10.2 on a nother partition.

the isnall went smoothly untill i get to teh first reboot.

when rebooting the kernel loads fine, it ges to startying Udev, all ok, but as it tries to start the rest of teh graphical setup my monitor overranges. and wont accept the input.

thsi is a problem ive had before with my graphiocs card and isnatlling the NVIDIA driver form a text console fixes this
however i cant get to a text console to try this,

init 3 as a kernel option at grub dousent seem to work and I for interactive staryup does nothing.

i have tried chrooting form suse but the NVIDIA installer fails on various errors,

teh first one being:
WARNING: Couldn't find a working chcon argument. Defaulting to shlib_t.

then if you accept this you get

WARNING: Unable to open the file '/proc/version' (No such file or directory).


further still if you ignore this you get
The CC version check failed:

/proc/version does not exist.


any ideas?

[AlexThomson_NZ]

Have you tried editing the default runlevel in /etc/inittab? Try changing the 5 to a 3.

It's pretty weird about not being able to find /proc/version- that should definitely be there! Bad install?

[Dies]

At the grub menu select the Fedora entry and hit a this should let you append stuff to the kernel line, leave a space and type the number three then hit enter to boot. If hitting a gets you nowhere then use e to edit select the kernel line hit e again then hit enter and b to boot.

Try not to use the Nvidia installer on Fedora since it replaces system libraries, instead when you login as root do the following:

First check that you got the right kernel by running:

rpm -qa 'kernel*' --queryformat "%{NAME}-%{VERSION}-%{RELEASE}.%{ARCH}\n"|sort

If you see anything that ends in .i586 then head HERE (http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Bugs/FC6Common) and follow the instructions to fix it, then after booting into the new kernel run the following:

rpm -ivh http://rpm.livna.org/livna-release-6.rpm <-- This will install the Livna repo which carries the Nvidia drivers among other things that you'll probably want like multimedia codecs - if that fails, then it's already installed don't worry about it.

yum install kmod-nvidia -y
mv /etc/X11/xorg.conf /etc/X11/junk.xorg.conf
nvidia-xconfig
shutdown -r now

And see what happens if you have any problems post back.

[dasy2k1]

Have you tried editing the default runlevel in /etc/inittab? Try changing the 5 to a 3.

It's pretty weird about not being able to find /proc/version- that should definitely be there! Bad install?


i think the proc problem was because i had chrooted from suse but im not sure,