monitor died, steps to get compaq presario (old) loaded?

[Tom Poe]

Chris Mohler wrote:
> On 4/6/07, Tom Poe <tompoe at fngi.net> wrote:
>> Monitor died.  Have an old compaq presario, but when booting to FC5,
>> level 5, it only gets as far as clock, then goes black.  I need help to
>> find steps to boot to new monitor?  Any help appreciated.  I'm thinking
>> I have to manually enter something when boot starts, right?
>> Tom
>
> Append a "3" to the boot line in grub to boot into text mode (runlevel 
> 3).
>
> Log in as root, then try:
> system-config-display --reconfig
>
> or:
> Xorg -configure
>
> HTH,
> Chris
>
Thanks, Chris.  Now, when I turn the computer on, how do I get to grub?
Tom
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