30 October 2007

Red Hat Linux Installation Problem (Solved)

Recently, I installed Red Hat Linux Fedora Core 7 on my laptop computer.
The installation went well except for one problem.
The bootup process would not complete and the screen would go blank.

I found the following web page to be tremendously useful in solving my problem: http://www.linuxforums.org/forum/redhat-fedora-linux-help/95675-centos-5-0-rhel5-fedora-7-installation-problems-tips-tricks.html

The Operating System does not work correctly with the monitor.
The solution is simple.
  1. Boot the system in run-level 3.
    1. Turn on the computer.
    2. Wait for the grub loader to start. Press a key to interrupt the boot cycle.
    3. Edit the boot parameters. Add the number 3 at the end.
    4. This will cause the system to boot in run-level 3. Run level 3 does not use graphics and so the operating system not working well with monitor problem is not fatal.
  2. Log in as root.
  3. Run system-config-display
In my case, these three steps were adequate to fix the problem.
The Linux Forums page suggests that you may need to do more.
Perhaps I was just lucky.