Re: video turns off just when os starts services when booting F8 after fresh install

On Thu, 2007-11-15 at 20:16 -0500, Ferindo Middleton wrote:
I've recently upgraded my F6 to F8. The install finished ok but when
the computer boots it gets to the boot loader, finishes and starts
booting up the kernel and then when it gets to the point where it show
the type I for Interactive boot and just after it starts the udev
service, the screen goes blank and never returns. There was no
indication during the setup that there was a problem with the video
card (I installed using the graphical installer by the way).

I'm wondering if it's simply at that point that RHGB kicks in, and tries
to display in a mode that your monitor doesn't support, so it blanks
out. Once booting had finished, you could try using CTRL ALT and the +
or - keys on the number pad to change resolutions (something I can't do,
as my laptop doesn't have a numberpad).

Removing rhgb from the kernel line in the grub.conf file would show
whether this was the case.

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