On Thursday, October 23, 2003, at 08:26 PM, Kevin Brown wrote:
>> 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.
Well, I managed to figure out that I could just hit 'a' at the grub and
add 'single' to the boot parameters to boot into single user mode. I
felt pretty clever for a Mac baby who thought the only way to get into
single user mode was to hold down Cmd-s during boot and couldn't find a
Cmd key on the AMD machine.
I really would like to get X going, though. I could give you a
rationalization about wanting to use SWAT to configure Samba. The truth
is, though, that I just really want to make this work. I could do all
the configuration on my Mac under either OS X or Linux and just move
the files over. It would feel like defeat, though.
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