Linux doesn't boot after installation

[Joshua Jones]

I installed FC6 today and did not have any problems during the installation.  However, once it was installed it will not boot.  It brings up the screen where it starts to bring up the different services.  Then X Starts as I can see the mouse cursor for about 1 second then the screen goes blank and the key board is useless.  Any help is appreciated thanks Joshua Jones
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[Frank Cox]

On Wed, 28 Mar 2007 18:28:13 -0400
Joshua Jones  wrote:
> I installed FC6 today and did not have any problems during the installation.  However, once it was installed it will not boot.  It brings up the screen where it starts to bring up the different services.  Then X Starts as I can see the mouse cursor for about 1 second then the screen goes blank and the key board is useless.  Any help is appreciated thanks Joshua Jones

When the Grub screen appears, hit the keys to edit the line that it's booting
from and add a 3 to the end of that line.  That should get you to a text login
screen and a commandline so you can fix your X configuration.

[Jim Cornette]

Joshua Jones wrote:
> I installed FC6 today and did not have any problems during the 
> installation.  However, once it was installed it will not boot.  It 
> brings up the screen where it starts to bring up the different 
> services.  Then X Starts as I can see the mouse cursor for about 1 
> second then the screen goes blank and the key board is useless.  Any 
> help is appreciated thanks Joshua Jones
>
> Check the weather nationwide with MSN Search Try it now! 
> http://search.msn.com/results.aspx?q=weather&FORM=WLMTAG

Since you have an older Nvidia video card, you might need to use the 
binary only driver for the legacy version driver from a repo that 
contains it.

If you need to get X up so you can use the GUI, you will need to edit 
the /etc/X11/xorg.conf file and replace the "nv" with "vesa" which 
should give you video enough to run X.

After you set up the repo, you might need to run the below. Look in the 
archives for different repos which supply the driver.
yum install xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-legacy.i386

Jim