On Thu, 2009-05-07 at 13:45 -0700, jackson byers wrote: > David: > > My (differing) interpretation of the above is that he is reporting > > success at reaching text login in f10. But like much of what he > > writes, it is hard to be sure what he is actually saying. > ---- > Craig: > it doesn't make sense that he can't boot from his F10 installation > directly but chainload to his FC5 installation which gives him a boot > menu that boots his F10 installation. > > That almost begs to get the full copies of both /boot/grub/grub.conf and > compare them. > ====== > jbyers: > sorry i wasnt clearer: > 1) yes, I can get a root login to level 3 > to do this I had to boot back into fc5 > (via the chainloader stanza in the f10 grub.conf) > mount the f10 partition, > and use emacs to put in "3" end of kernel line in f10 grub.conf. > Then on rebooting, i get to f10 level 3 console login. > > 2) so now that i can get that root login, what can i do with it? > This f10 install was done using the minimum default choices > so i dont even know what text editors available. --- boot F10 in runlevel 3 login as root yum update mkinitrd yum update yum install system-config-display system-config-display --reconfig
If you do all that, can run 'startx' and be happy, I suppose you are good. Craig -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines