Boot problem

[refuso]

Hey, I'm completely new to the linux environment but I've decided to give it a shot. I've recently just installed Fedora 7 via VMware on Windows XP. I'm not sure whether this is actually an installation problem or just me being completely oblivious as to how Fedora actually runs; but once the system was installed and did the first boot it boot directly into the console. There was no GUI boot.

Is this a problem due to not having sufficient RAM to run Fedora via VMware in GUI mode, or is there a simple command I can use to boot into a GUI mode? (The laptop I'm using has ~760 DDR2 RAM installed)

This is what comes up after I boot:

Fedora release 7 (Moonshine)
Kernel 2.6.20-2925.9.fc7xen on an i686

localhost login:

I realise I can log in as root, and I have no problem doing so - it's what I'm supposed to do after that which I don't know!

Hopefully someone can point me in the right direction; thanks in advance.




-Refuso

[glennzo]

Not sure about running under VMWare, but on a system where Fedora is actually installed and this happens you would login as regular user and type 'startx'. That usually brings up the GUI.

[refuso]

Ah awesome, that worked!

Thanks a lot for the prompt reply.



-Graham

[stevea]

But the problem is that this should never have occurred in the first place. He should have gotten the giu first time.


When you boot to the prompt, login as root and type "ps -aef | gpre init" and you should see one line like"

root 1 0 0 Aug15 ? 00:00:03 init [5]

If you don't see "[5]" then you need to edit the boot run state (/etc/inittab). looking for lines like:
id:5:initdefault:
and
x:5:respawn:/etc/X11/prefdm -nodaemon
==
If you do have a [5], then check inittab anyway and proceesd to examine the /var/log/Xorg.0.log to see
what failed.