Won't boot to X after install

[akonstam at trinity.edu]

On Sat, Apr 30, 2005 at 06:01:45PM +0000, neidorff wrote:
> On 4/30/05, THUFIR HAWAT <hawat.thufir at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On 4/30/05, neidorff <neidorff at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > Hi folks,
> > [..]
> > > Will someone please help me fix this system so that it can boot
> > > and I
> > > can configure it?
> > 
> > to start with, have you tried to do anything with the rescue cd?
> > also, does a live cd, such as knoppix, work?  I offer only questions,
> > not actual help ;)
> > 
> > 
> > Thufir
> 
> Yes, I booted with the rescue CD.  It didn't make any changes to the
> disk.  On a separate HD, in the same computer, I have RH 7.3
> installed.  I am using that just fine now.
> (I also have a knoppix CD here that I have booted with.  It also works.)
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Mark
Various thoughts:
1. Can you not boot at all, or you can't boot into init 5. If you can
boor to int 3 do that and run system-config-display to configure the
xorg.conf file for X.

2, Do have a proper grub.conf and has grub been installed. If that is a
problem it can be fixed buy booting into rescue mode and them do a
chroot /mnt/sysimage (or make your FC3 root partition root) to fix
grub.
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