New FC2 Intall Problem

[akonstam at trinity.edu]

On Tue, Jul 27, 2004 at 11:02:45AM +0100, Davido02 wrote:
> Ive just finished a new install of FC2.
> 
> All goes well right up untill final reboot and then screen corrupts and 
> pc locks up entirely.
> 
> Because of the corruption I suspect that the monitor settings are not 
> correct but having said that the settings were correct for my monitor 
> (ASTVision7L) I *tried* to check that setting by stating the install 
> again but it definitely set ok . I tried the generic monitor setting 
> with same result and revert back to the 7L selection but all im getting 
> now is vertical green lines on white background
> 
> Im wondering if a. im doing enough to reset the monitor settings and b. 
> wht is the correct way to sort this out without having to completely 
> reinstall FC2
> 
> Thanks
> 
> David
> 
If you mean the final boot after the installation finishes then most
of the booting process occurs with out X being used (especially if you
remove rhgb) from the kernel line in grub.conf. That the pc locks
immediately is bad news and I don't think it has any thing to do with
the monitor settings which worked during the install.

I fought with similar problems during an install and you might try at
a re-install try typing: linux ide=nodma

at the boot prompt. This is explained in the following web page:
http://www.exocore.com/technologies/linux/rhl71dma/
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