Trouble booting fresh Core 3 install

Sergio fernandez s.fernandez at albion.co.uk
Wed Jan 19 15:22:27 UTC 2005


Are you using a flat screen display?


On 19 Jan 2005, at 14:18, David Nelson wrote:

> 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
>
> -- 
> Tony Dietrich
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