FC 5 black screen before install

Karl Larsen k5di at zianet.com
Sun Apr 30 23:42:23 UTC 2006


fedora-list-bounces at redhat.com wrote:
> I have downloaded, sha1sum'ed and burned a set of CD install discs.
> After booting from disc 1, I hit <enter> to start a graphical install
> and get a black screen.  I have tried several variants of 'linux xxx'
> at the boot: prompt and all result in the black screen.
>
> I'm running:
> Asus A7V333
> AMD Athlon XP 1800
> 512 MB RAM
> nVidia NV15DDR GeForce2 Ti
> Sony Trinitron Multiscan G400
>
> Any ideas on getting an install process that I can see executing?
>
> Thanks!
>
> Steve
    Did you test your cd-rom's before trying to load? It might be a 
problem in disk 1. I loaded that way no problem.

Karl




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