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Flyboy917
21st February 2006, 05:00 AM
Clean install x3
Setup user after initial reboot, set ntp on and off, setup resoultion to 1280x1024 and 1024x768.
Click finish and screen goes black. No cntrl-alt-bkspc, no cntrl-alt F2-anything.
Bugzilla???
hiberphoptik
21st February 2006, 05:37 AM
try init 3 and then turning off all the junk you dont need then init 5 from there see if it lets you into X

so far test 3 has been great for me

good luck!
Flyboy917
22nd February 2006, 03:03 AM

try init 3 and then turning off all the junk you dont need then init 5 from there see if it lets you into X

so far test 3 has been great for me

good luck!

K, how do you boot to init 3 without editing inittab first?
I would guess it's a grub command line option but I have no idea.
hiberphoptik
22nd February 2006, 04:42 AM
when grub comes up press a then replace the word quiet with init 3 and hit enter

hope that helps!
Flyboy917
22nd February 2006, 04:53 AM
nogo...tried init3 and init 3. I'm baffeled. With no hardware or BIOS changes the same machine has run FC3, FC4, and FC5 t2. T3 is the Terminator!
Flyboy917
22nd February 2006, 05:41 AM
OK, Just did a clean intall of test2 and all is fine. Will install test3 as an upgrade
mbokil
22nd February 2006, 02:57 PM
Hold the presses don't release it yet! I tried FC5 test3 on two Nvidia g2 pro older dell 1 gig machines and anaconda crashes every time. Previous FC4 installs worked flawlessly. Possibly support for legacy drivers is missing.

The install screen gets as far as checking dependencies and then X dies and the only option is to reboot.

-mark
RahulSundaram
24th February 2006, 06:59 PM
Hold the presses don't release it yet! I tried FC5 test3 on two Nvidia g2 pro older dell 1 gig machines and anaconda crashes every time. Previous FC4 installs worked flawlessly. Possibly support for legacy drivers is missing.

The install screen gets as far as checking dependencies and then X dies and the only option is to reboot.

-mark

No need to stop the presses for bugs on a test release. Just post to fedora-test list and use bugzilla for filing bug reports.
Flyboy917
11th March 2006, 01:23 AM
when grub comes up press a then replace the word quiet with init 3 and hit enter

hope that helps!

Doing a re-install cause I really jacked xorg playing with ATI drivers, anyhow: This is my 3rd install of FC5T3. The first two were from CD's, this one is a dvd. Once again, first reboot after first boot, and everything goes dead.
And again, replacing quiet on boot with init 3 doesn't work. "init 3" boots to run level 5 and fails. "init3" causes a kernel panic.
Replacing rhgb quite with either of these options fails the same.
The culprit seems to be any screen resolution greater then 640x480 fails until yum update replaces something.

Can anyone tell me another way to get Grub to boot to init 3, so I can do a yum update?
Flyboy917
11th March 2006, 02:25 AM
Well, I got in using Linux Rescue....however I would like to know if the syntax I'm using is correct and /or it's just an issue with my system.
Tellik
11th March 2006, 06:51 PM
I had this problem also, I tracked it down to using 16 or 24 bit color. I could do any resolution at 256 color.

What is your kernel version? I was using the initial FC5 T3 kernel. I installed kernel 2.6.15-1.2025_FC5 and it fixed the problem. Side note, I installed 2.6.15-1.2038_FC5 and couldn't even get it to boot, so I'm back to 2025.

I have an AMD64, ATI X600, Gateway 7510GX Laptop