Trouble Beginning the Installation

Problems with Booting into the Graphical Installation

The Red Hat Linux Advanced Workstation installation program uses frame buffers by default. However, there are some video cards that will not work with this setting. The end result will be a problem booting into the graphical installation program.

The installation program will first try to run in frame buffer mode. If that fails, it will try to run in a lower resolution mode. If that still fails, the installation program will run in text mode.

Users who have video cards that will not run at 800 x 600 resolution should type lowres at the boot: prompt to run the installation program in 640 x 480 resolution.

If this still does not work, you can run the installation program without frame buffers by typing nofb at the boot: prompt.

Is Your Mouse Not Detected?

If the Mouse Not Detected screen (see Figure B-1) appears, then the installation program was not able to identify your mouse correctly.

You can choose to continue with the GUI installation or use the text mode installation, which does not require using a mouse. If you choose to continue with the GUI installation, you will need to provide the installation program with your mouse configuration information (see the Section called Mouse Configuration in Chapter 3).