Fedora Core 3 available, FC1 dropped

Posted Nov 9, 2004 18:32 UTC (Tue) by cconvey (guest, #11996)
In reply to: Fedora Core 3 available, FC1 dropped by loening
Parent article: Fedora Core 3 available, FC1 dropped

Wow, it's like you're in my shoes. This is great.

> 1. Grub was not installed (no boot screen, just the cursor in the top
> left corner). I loaded the system back up using disc1 in rescue mode,
> and grub-install told me something about md0 not being a BIOS drive. I
> got around this by temporary mucking with /etc/mtab (switching md0 to
> sda) and rerunning grub-install.

This would be consistent with my server that's having this problem. It's using a RAID card that presents the array as a SCSI drive. I'll try out your fix.

What's your more permant solution?

> 2. System hung at "configuring kernel parameters". I traced this down to
> the NVidia driver that I had just installed. Booting up in runlevel 3
> without rhgb got my system back up.

Totally plausible for my laptop. That was an upgrade from FC2, and prior to the upgrade I had nVidia's driver installed.

Is there a way to suppress rhgb without doing serious surgery on the init files?

Alternatively, do you think I could just boot up in runlevel 3, reinstall the nVidia driver, and fixup my xorg.conf file accordingly?

Thanks,
Christian

Fedora Core 3 available, FC1 dropped

Posted Nov 9, 2004 18:38 UTC (Tue) by xyz (subscriber, #504) [Link] (2 responses)

Notice that in the new version you can have a different configuration for
for rhgb, different from your xserver.

To disable the graphical boot simply go to /etc/grub.conf and remove the
rhgb from the configuration, easier it would be impossile. :-)

Fedora Core 3 available, FC1 dropped

Posted Nov 9, 2004 18:51 UTC (Tue) by cconvey (guest, #11996) [Link] (1 responses)

Thanks. I'm grub-clueless, so I'm going to ask a follow-up question:

After mucking with grub.conf, do I need to run some program so that the changes to grub.conf will take effect on future boots?

Fedora Core 3 available, FC1 dropped

Posted Nov 9, 2004 18:59 UTC (Tue) by tomsi (subscriber, #2306) [Link]

No.

That is the sweet thing about grub. Edit your file and reboot.