It looks like your startup can read the boot partition, but GRUB has problems with your main linux partition.

Did you removed any hard drives after installing, even hard drives you belief you did not use. My first bet will be that somehow you LVM got mixed up.

Again please inform us of which hardware you use......

Sounds lixe the root partition isn't mounted. Possible if you are doing this from the install-disk rescue mode.

Diagnose this with fdisk -l
(You'll get a list of partitions.)
... and pwd (to see where you are).

Fedora creates three partitions by default... boot, root, and swap. The root partition is the biggest linux partition. You want to mount this one, then chroot to it, for the commands to work.

mount -t ext3 /dev/sda2 /mnt
chroot /mnt

mount /dev/sda3 /boot
(this is optional... but if you don't then /boot directory will be empty.)

ls /home should work.

Otherwise you'll need a reinstall.
Speaking of which:... such impatience! You only waited a couple of hours... admittedly, you had a reply in that time but wait a bit. You are right that fedora installs the needed packages or gives an error.

Sometimes, though, some sort of HW glitch occurs which stops part of the installation.

But I see you got as far as the graphical login, suggesting a reinstall may have been required.

As the others have said, we need the HW constellation.
A low spec machine may experience lockups with fedora for eg.

Have a go logging in to text mode
(from the GRUB menu or from one of the options in the login screen)
... if fine, then edit xorg.conf like I described before, save, exit, enter "startx".


If you mouse and kbd are USB, try a ps2 adapter.

Hi. I have a similar problem and so thought it suitable to post here. I too just installed FC6 using the graphical installer. Everything was graphical until post installation (firstboot, I think) completed then it dropped me to a command line log in prompt. I logged in as root and tried to run startx, but it told me X was running in another console (or something like that). I tried ALT+1 to ALT+7 and found the GUI was indeed running under the ALT+7 console.

So my question is, and I suspect hulk321's question is too, how can I get it to boot directly to the GUI. Can it be set up to do it from console 1 (ALT+1), or can I get it to automatically switch to console 7 (ALT+7) at startup?

This is very strange... and nothing like that have I seen when FC6 was current.
My principle advise to you guys is to install fedora 7.

If you boot into a text console and the gui is running on another one... try closing the text console. Or, close the gui console and run startx on the old one.

Fedora is supposed to run X on the root console at boottime.

You want to check /etc/X11/xorg.conf at the video section to see if anything odd is there. Also look through your syslogs for anything that talks about opening more than one console. While you are there, check what driver you are using and see if the vesa driver makes any difference.

i have installed it on pretty conventional pc which is p4D dual processor (2.8GH X86),NVIDIA GeForce turbo cashe,512MB RAM and INTEL motherboard.

Using PS2 mouse. keyboard is fine but it doesn't when Fedora core shows up desktop(num. lock doesn't work).

i am not using any beta or demo. full version DVD. everything works fine on fedora core 4 except sound card as it says at the start "No sound control found".

someone help me please!!

Hulk: your information is quite spartan.
Would you respond to post #17 please?

In general, you should respond to all questions in all posts rather that leave us to guess the replies.

Thank you.

[Quote=Simon Bridge]Sounds lixe the root partition isn't mounted. Possible if you are doing this from the install-disk rescue mode.

Diagnose this with fdisk -l
(You'll get a list of partitions.)
... and pwd (to see where you are).

Fedora creates three partitions by default... boot, root, and swap. The root partition is the biggest linux partition. You want to mount this one, then chroot to it, for the commands to work.

mount -t ext3 /dev/sda2 /mnt
chroot /mnt

mount /dev/sda3 /boot
(this is optional... but if you don't then /boot directory will be empty.)

ls /home should work.

Otherwise you'll need a reinstall.
[Quote]

following is fdisk -ls output;

/dev/sda1* boot fat32
/dev/sda2 fat32
/dev/sda3 fat32
.
.
/dev/sda8 VOL00 Linux
/dev/sda9 VOL01 Linux

(More or less like this;if you want i will past the exact)

i have booted it through rescue mode, it start in some shell. as it says " your system image is located in mount /sysimage" or some thing like this. then "chroot /mnt". i have done the same.

then i got the root previllage by doing "su -". i did mount the boot drive as follows;

-mount -t vfat /dev/sda1 /mnt
-su -
-ls /home

thats it, it goes into "home" directory and shows nothing. what do i do?

2. now i am using fedora core7, it logs but as soon as desktop is shown the key board and mouse stop working. sometime the keyboard and mouse stop working while i put in username or password.

please guide!

Don't forget to close the quote box (with a "[/quote]").

I'll correct your notation:
That su wasn't needed, you were already root when you issued the mount command.

The # sign shows you are root. If you did the command as a regular user it would be a $ sign.

The last ls command didn't do what you needed. You needed:

ls /mnt/home

... from those commands.
Drat, this is easier from a live distro, I cannot remember what the fedora rescue mode does for you. I think it just gives you a root shell.

If the system image is on /mnt/sysimage... then you should look in the media directory

ls /media

to see if anything is mounted there.
if not, then try # mount -t ext3 /dev/sda1 /media

ls /media again... see if that is your root partition really... it should have a /boot and /home and other things in it. If it has /grub and some things like initrd<some numbers> then it is the boot partition.

ls /media/home

There should be a home directory with your name on it and something called lost+found

If not... you can create a user... or reinstall.

Simon i have installed FC7 now. everything is fine but mouse and key board doesnt work either at login screen or after words. the number lock stops responding along with mouse arrow. rest of the interface seems fine i.e. the text line keeps on blinking.
i have tried couple of different key boards after installation. what do i do now???

Have you tried pressing CTRL+ALT+F7 when the system is in that state? Might be it forgot to switch to the X server. (X-Server runs on VT7 by default on Fedora)

Is this the completion of what we were talking about before or a whole new installation?... so how did you manage to login? Is this the graphical login or the text one?But you cannot type anything on the text line? The three-finger salute suggested by x_terminat_or_3 may still work - give it a try.Did you try any ps/2 keyboards?

I have a hunch:
The login screen is text, you can enter your username, press enter, then it asks for your password. This is when the keyboard stops working?

If so, do not worry. Type you password normally and press enter. You wil get an errer or a command prompt. At a command prompt, enter "startx".