Facing an error while installing Fedora 9
 

I met with this following error while installing fedora 9:

While installing fedora 9, after all the packages are installed, it shows installation complete and asks to reboot.
When Linux boots up, after displaying Starting UDEV, the screen goes blank and it shows Input not supported.

I made a swap partition of 1000 MB and a root partition of ext3 file system of size 9000 MB.
I also have Windows XP installed on one partition.
My PC's configuration are : intel P4 2.66 ghz processor, 1 gb ram, 80 gb hard disk gigabyte GA 73VM-S2 motherboard.

I also tried installing 64 bit version of fedora 9 but again the same error showed up.

Please guide me what to do or which version to install.

It may be your resolution. From memory you can hit one of the function keys to get clues as to what resolutions that you can give to FC at install time. linux resolution=thisxthat is more or less the kind of thing that you could try.

Are you able to boot in single user mode?

No. After "Starting udev", screen goes blank and it shows "Input Not Supported". The only thing that can then be done is restart the pc.

Can you please tell me how to do this ?
Thanks in advance.

Describe your hardware in more detail.
power management mode?
Video bios?...these two can conflict possibly
SATA?

add "linux resolution=1024x800" without " in the kernel line

And that's true even if you add the word "single" to the kernel line in the GRUB menu? I'm just trying to work out if you know how to edit the GRUB menu, and how to try what I or amani suggested, or if you weren't aware it was possible. If you don't know what I'm on about, let me know and I'll post instructions

Please tell me the instructions.
Thank you.

Please tell me how to do this in more detail. I have just started working on Linux.

When you boot, you should get a message from GRUB saying

"Booting Fedora in 5..4..3.."

While the countdown is displayed, press any key to get a menu showing all the operating systems on your machine. Go to the menu entry for Fedora and hit e to edit the options for that line.

You should come to a sub-menu with lines beginning with "root", "kernel", and "initrd". Select the kernel line and hit e again to edit it. Now do as amani suggested and type linux resolution=1024x800 at the end of the kernel line. Hit enter, and then b to boot with the new option. Think this is different from what jayeola said as he was talking about an option at install time, but I guess it has the same effect.

If that doesn't do any good, you can try booting to a different runlevel: instead of linux resolution=1024x800, simply enter the number 3 and try to boot. Or you can enter the word single (be careful with this one as it logs you in as root, so you can kill your system if you enter the wrong command). Both of these will boot to a command-line interface, no windows, so if the problem is with your display, like the others were suggesting, these might still work.

If the above works, I don't actually know how to fix the problem, but at least we know that it only occurs in graphical mode. Maybe amani/jayeola can help with that.

PS type shutdown now to switch off your computer from the command line, or shutdown -r now to reboot.

PPS actually, you may need to type /sbin/shutdown if shutdown doesn't work on its own

Thank you for the instructions. I learned something new though it didn't work out.
I have formatted my pc and installed Windows XP sp2, earlier I had Win XP sp3.
I then installed Red Hat LInux 9 and it is working fine.