Fedora 8

dperryr · 11-13-2007, 03:53 PM

Installed Fedora Core 8 and the install went fine from GUI. After reboot walked through setup and all was well. After answering all the questions it started tryng to load X windows but instead of getting X windows the mouse just sets there and spins.

Everytime I try to reboot it tries to start X-windows and mouse just comes up and spins. X windows never loads. I have tried interactive boot but it always defaults to init 5 and same thing occurs. How can I get it to boot to init 3 and try to troubleshoot X windows?

billymayday · 11-13-2007, 04:01 PM

You should be able to boot into rescue mode from the install DVD, then mount the F* install a,d edit /inittab to boot to level 3 by default

PTrenholme · 11-13-2007, 04:24 PM

Or just use the GRUB built-in editor to add a 3 at the end of the kernel line. (Stop the automatic boot with the ESC key, move the cursor to the Fedora 8 boot command, press "e", highlight the kernel line, press "e" again, add a space and 3, press return, then press "b" to boot from the edited commands.)

Good luck. (I have a nVidia card, and needed to add the livna repositories, and then use yum to get the kmod-nividia driver installed before I got a "good" X boot.)

billymayday · 11-13-2007, 04:47 PM

Actually, you may be able to add init 3 as an option at the grub menu - do you hit esc. to add options?

dperryr · 11-13-2007, 07:16 PM

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Originally Posted by PTrenholme

Or just use the GRUB built-in editor to add a 3 at the end of the kernel line. (Stop the automatic boot with the ESC key, move the cursor to the Fedora 8 boot command, press "e", highlight the kernel line, press "e" again, add a space and 3, press return, then press "b" to boot from the edited commands.)

Good luck. (I have a nVidia card, and needed to add the livna repositories, and then use yum to get the kmod-nividia driver installed before I got a "good" X boot.)

Cool that is the same card I have installed and Nvidia GForce. It recognized it as a Gforce 5200 but I don't think that is the right card. I am going to try a generic Gforce and see if it will work until I can figure out which GForce it is.

Thanks...

dperryr · 11-13-2007, 07:16 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by billymayday

Actually, you may be able to add init 3 as an option at the grub menu - do you hit esc. to add options?

I wasn't sure how to stop the boot process so I will try this and let you know.

Thanks.