I'm assuming that your video card and/or monitor were not configured
properly during install.  From runlevel 3, type:

Xconfigurator

Hopefully everything will be autodetected.  What video card and monitor
are you using, by the way?
~M


On Fri, 2 Aug 2002, Peter Koch wrote:

> Greetings --
>      I am trying to set up a duel boot system with Red Hat 7.2 and Windows XP.  All of the components in my system are fairly new (less than 6 months old).  I have formatted half of the 80GB drive and installed Win XP using the NTFS file system.  I have installed Red Hat 7.2 on the other half of the drive.  Here are some of the installation particulars:
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>      1.  GRUB was selected as the boot loader.
>      2.  Boot loader record was installed on the first sector on the boot partition.
>      3.  Both GNOME and KDE were installed.
>
>      So far I have two problems that I was hoping someone might be able to help me with.  First, I do not receive a menu asking me which OS I would like to start?  I selected Win XP as the default and the system will boot to that, but if I want to start Linux I have to use the boot floppy.  Second problem, when I do start Linux it is in the text mode.  I have tried the startx command and also change the file /etc/inittab to read id:5:initdefault: to change to graphical mode but I have had no luck.
>      I have done a very limited amount of programming in the past and I have no Linux experience.  Does anyone have some input on this situation?  I would really appreciate the help.
>      Thank You
>      Peter Koch
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