On Fri, Aug 3, 2012 at 11:03 AM, Rick Stevens ricks@alldigital.com wrote:
On 08/03/2012 01:46 PM, Dave Burns issued this missive::
Thanks for your response.
On Fri, Aug 3, 2012 at 10:10 AM, Jack Craig jack.craig.aptos@gmail.com wrote:
i used live-creator to put a boot image on a usb thumb drive; worked great...
I have access to an image. I am able to boot it. Switching to a thumb drive seems unlikely to improve things, since my problem seems to be that the installer does not like my graphics, which is a really old thing integrated into the motherboard of this old server. The installer boots but will only let me talk to to it from the tty. So my question is, can I continue installing from the tty?
In case its still not clear, here's what I did:
- I put in the disk and boot.
- see bios screen
- see fedora 17 screen
- hit esc, see output from many daemons starting apparently with success
- screen displays "analog input cannot display this video mode"
(maybe x or gconfd is starting?)
That's usually your monitor being unable to handle the signal being sent by the video card. My guess is that the video card is fine but your monitor can't handle the resolution being decided.
Is there a way to tweak that from the command line?
- I hit ctl-alt f3 and am able to log in as root with no password.
- I google the error message, get so many hits, none seem relevant.
all about fc3, fc7.
- narrow down google search to fc17, 2 irrelevant hits
- write desperate emails to fedora users list
I need advice showing me either 1) how to fix X and get the gui installer visible or 2) proceed with install from command line or 3) reboot & start installer in text mode.
I've done text mode on previous versions of fedora, but when I follow the directions in the fc17 install guide, I can't seem to find the right magic. It says to type in "linux text" at the boot prompt. Error message is "Could not find kernel image: linux". Maybe that's not really the boot prompt? Maybe the guide is not telling me everything I need to type in to the prompt?
When the "Install or upgrade" thing is highlighted after booting the DVD, hit the ENTER key, wait a couple of seconds and hit the escape key. You should be presented with a "boot:" prompt
Output is: "Aborted. boot:"
at which you can enter "linux text".
At that point it replies "Could not find kernel image: linux". What? TDB
Or you can try with a lower resolution screen by using "linux resolution=1024x768" or something. Try looking at this link:
http://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/Fedora/17/html/Installation_Guide/ap-adm...
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