FC3 Graphical Install and Boot Problems

[Richard Duncan]

Well finally after getting it to boot in runlevel 3 I was able to  
modify inittab to always do that.  I've narrowed the problem down to  
the radeon kernel driver.  If I go into xorg.conf and change the driver  
to vga, I can get X to start properly and display things mostly right,  
but with oddity: it only works in 8-bit color mode (since that's  
apparently all vga supports), and no matter resolution I set it to, I  
get this 640x480 screen "zoomed" in on the upper left hand corner of  
the screen (i.e., only showing the upper left quarter of the desktop).   
Its odd that the kernel radeon driver won't work, since it did for me  
in FC2.

New problem.  Any new ideas anyone?


> Date: Sat, 04 Dec 2004 03:26:04 +0100
> From: Alexander Dalloz <ad+lists at uni-x.org>
> Subject: Re: FC3 Graphical Install and Boot Problems
> To: For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list at redhat.com>
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> Am Sa, den 04.12.2004 schrieb Richard Duncan um 3:23:
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>> I tried re-running the installation using "nofb" but no change.  I  
>> also
>> removed rhgb from the grub line, but still no change.  It boots up and
>> into what I assume is the firstboot program.  Is there a way to set
>> grub to tell the system to boot in runlevel 3 or anything?
>
> Simply append a "3" (without quotes) to the end of the kernel parameter
> line in grub edit mode.
>
> Alexander
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