Display shutting down on first boot
Andy Green
andy at warmcat.com
Sat Aug 4 15:26:40 UTC 2007
Somebody in the thread at some point said:
>>> I do have a working xorg.conf from FC6 backed up on disk. How can I
>>> get to a prompt so that I can copy it to this F7 install?
>> Not sure that is the right idea... after all a lot has changed
>> underneath a "working xorg.conf" from FC6.". The question is, what is
>> the Driver line in the "Device" stanza. To get yourself going, try
>> setting Driver "vesa" in there.
>
> Thanks. How can I get to a command prompt to find out?
Just hit 'A' at the gurb boot prompt and add a '3' to the kernel
commandline.
If things ever get really bad, insert your install CD and type
linux rescue
-Andy
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