boot with mode=vesa

[cornel panceac]

if you append  ' 3' (without quotes) to the kernel line, will start in
runlevel 3 (multiuser,network,text) and then you can edit /etc/X11/xorg.conf
, replace
Driver "something"
line with
Driver "vesa"
save and reboot.

2007/7/23, Justin Conover <justin.conover at gmail.com>:
>
> Is there some switch to boot with vesa instead of detecting your video
> card and using "nv" for example?  I have a newer mobile 8400 card and the
> screen just goes black when it starts the gui.  I have been trying to build
> a rawhide dvd since F7 doesn't detect my dvd drive after the initial boot,
> which seems kind of odd that it boots and loads up and then ask cd/http/nfs
> and then can't find the dvd driver.  FC6 installs but doesn't find the tg3
> nic so updating turns into a problem :)
>
> For what it is worth, Debian testing network boot installs fine and it is
> on a 2.6.21 kernel.
>
> I have tried some boot.iso's from rawhide the past week, but they just
> stop on unpacking initrd.blah.
>
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