> I'm trying to install Red Hat 9 on a brand new system to be a
> file/print/db server. My problem is that as soon as the computer comes
> back up from the install, the screen goes blank except for a box that
> says "no signal". Red Hat identifies the video card as a n S3 ProSavage
> KM133. I installed Win XP just for a minute and it said the card was an
> S3 ProSavage DDR. In either event, according to this page
> <http://www.probo.com/~timr/savage40.html> the savage_drv.o should do
> the trick and Red Hat installed that.
>
> If it's a clue, Red Hat wouldn't even complete the install without
> blanking the screen until I said "linux lowres" at the boot prompt. In
> that case the message on the screen said something about 'out of sync'.
I tend to do:
boot> linux text askmethod
for doing redhat installs (no real dependency on graphics cards).
If the machine is going to be a server I don't configure X (though I might
install it to run apps remotely) and have it boot to runlevel 3 instead of 5
(command-line multiuser mode instead of GUI multiuser mode).
If the system is able to display the grub boot menu, then select the boot option
you want and hit 'e'. This will open a new window that allows you to edit the
boot lines. select the line that has the kernel reference in it and hit 'e'
again. Append single to the end of the line, hit enter, then hit 'b' to boot
with that change.
This will bring you into singleuser mode and allow you to edit things like
/etc/inittab to change the default runlevel.
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