Display Problem Upon Initial Reboot

[David Curry]

This may be a case of the blind attempting to lead the blind, but your 
problem description suggests to me that you have a graphics card driver 
problem or a display monitor configuration problem.  Half an hour ago I 
discovered a number of other Red Hat/Fedora mailing lists with separate 
archives for each.  You may be better served by reviewing the archives 
at https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/xfree86-list and posing your 
question there.

If you are familiar with linux, you might try booting into a command 
line screen (VGA) and avoiding the X-window system until you solve your 
setup issues.

Neeraj Gupta wrote:

> I just installed FC2 on a Compaq (Optiquest monitor) and everything 
> went fine, it seemed, until I was prompted to reboot. After "udev" and 
> "Initializing hardware" it opened up a GUI and I saw an hourglass for 
> just a few seconds. After that, my computer froze with a bizarre color 
> pattern: vertical stripes of random color and width. This happens 
> every time I try to boot. Any idea?
>
> I'm very new to this--my apologies if this is redundant; I couldn't 
> locate anything in the fedora-list archive.
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Neeraj