Re(2): Trouble booting fresh Core 3 install
Mallia Cedric at MITTS
cedric.mallia at gov.mt
Wed Jan 19 14:24:00 UTC 2005
Hi,
I had the same problem and the only way I circumvented it was to disable
graphiacl boot (thus botting from console was done to text mode), and left X
running for VNC connections.
Regards
Cedric
David Nelson (19/01/2005 15:18):
>Unfortunately, adding these commands below did not help. I still see a
waterfall of multi-colored pixels.
>
>I'm at a total loss on this. Redhat 8.0 installed just fine with the current
hardware configuration.
>
>Any other ideas? I really want to stay with Linux.
>
>Thanks
>Dave
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Tony Dietrich [mailto:td at transoft.demon.co.uk]
>Sent: Tuesday, January 18, 2005 9:14 AM
>To: David Nelson
>Subject: Re: Trouble booting fresh Core 3 install
>
>
>On Tuesday 18 Jan 2005 14:55, you wrote:
>> Thanks for replying Tony. The waterfall happens directly and almost
>> immediately after the GRUB boot command. Within a minute or two, it
>> freezes to a static multi-colored screen of gibberish.
>>
>> I have seen reference to 'quiet' and rhgb' but where would those go/where
>> would I remove them? They are not on the command line args in GRUB as
>> viewed by typing 'e'.
>>
>OK
>Sounds like there's some incompatibility between the hardware and FC.
>
>Try adding one or more of the following to your command line when you boot
>from grub (by pressing 'e'):
>noapic
>noide
>noapm
>
>If neither of those work, try booting into single mode 'single'
>and seeing if you can get into the machine.
>
>Any successes/failures, come back to me with reports :p
>
>--
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Regards,
Cedric M Mallia
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