problem with fedora 3

[Thomas Cameron]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Venkatesh Madhipatla" <msvenkatesh at gmail.com>
To: <fedora-list at redhat.com>
Sent: Saturday, February 05, 2005 4:12 PM
Subject: problem with fedora 3


> hi,
>
> i have a hp pavillion celeron pc.
> i was having red hat 7.2 previously and it was working fine. now i
> upgraded it to fedora 3. The installation went without any problem.
> But when i boot the machine, it accepts the user and password and then
> nothing comes up. i see just vertical stripes in the display. i guess
> it's not working properly with graphics card.
>
> i have windows 98 in another partition and it works fine. By the way,
> how does it accept the user and password in a graphical interface if
> it has problems with graphics card?
>
> Any help will be greatly appreciated.
>
> thanks
> venkat

Sounds like you are booting to graphical mode, and your video settings are 
messed up.

Reboot, and when you see the Grub menu, hit "e" to enter edit mode.  Then 
choose the line with the kernel in it (it will look similar to:

kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.10-1.737_FC3 ro root=LABEL=/ rhgb quiet

Take out the "rhgb quiet" part and add "3" so it looks similar to this: