Installing Fedora7 in a VirtualPC2007 guest?

[Chris Jones]

> I tried login as root and got a # prompt.
> 
> Then tried system-config-display and X started and showed a config
> screen where I could set the colors to thousands (corresponds to depth
> 16) and the screen to a Generic LCD panel with resolution 1024x768.
> However, when I hit the OK button the panel disappeared and there was
> only a blank black screen in front of me....
> 
> Only way out was a reset of the PC followed by a renewed boot with the
> extra parameters but now without 3.
> 
> This brought me finally through it all without corruption and on to a
> login screen where I could get into Fedora as root and add users etc.
> 
> I have yet to see how I can get the system to reboot without
> interference with the extra parameters, though.
> 
> Question:
> Is there some config app where the boot options can be set or do I
> have to manually edit grub.conf???

No, you just have to manually edit grub.conf and make the permanent 
changes you want. (just to be safe you might want to make a backup first 
'cp grub.cong grub.conf.backup')

Chris