FC2 can not start alone (in non-interactive mode)
 

Greetings,

I have installed Fedora Core 2 on a new pc. Installation was smooth. At the first boot, I thought that machine can not boot since there was no response after message 'Grub loading stage 2...'. After scratching everything for two days, I learnt that I had to be patient for 20 seconds. :(
Anyhow, now fedora can boot but here's another problem.

Fedora can not start alone.

After interactive menu prompt, if I let the system go on alone, the screen switches to 1024x768 resolution (monitor says that) and hangs up there. No mouse cursor, hdd activity, ctrl+alt+del etc.

On the other hand, if I enter to interactive mode, by pressing 'i', GUI starts (I don't know if that gui is part of X) and asks questions of interacitve mode. I just let it continue and all the [OK]'s and system works fine.

I need this machine as a server and it should be booting itself.

What should I do to make the machine start alone?

How can I see what the machine is trying to do when it hangs up?

Any help is appreciated.

Thanks,

Unsem

Check your /etc/grub and remove any reference to 'rhgb'.

Removing 'rhgb' from grub.config worked. System comes up with no X. Thanks.

But now, when I 'startx' the same thing happens. System hangs up and needs hard reset.

When I 'xdm', everything seems ok.

Is this a bug or what? Shall I report it?

Good day,

Unsem