next time, when it tries to start, when you have the chance to chose between windows and linux, hit tab, then type without the quotes, "linux 3". this will cause the GUI (XFree86) to not start. login as your root user, and type "XFdrake' (note the caps, very important in *nix). this will bring up the configuration utility to setup the GUI.
On Friday 07 February 2003 08:51 am, Julian Templeman wrote: > Hi... > > I've just tried my first installation of 9.0 onto a Windows 2000 > machine. The installation didn't show up any problems, and the boot > manager lets me happily boot up into either 2000 or Linux. > > The problem occurs when Linux starts up. All the startup text appears > OK, and then the screen goes blank. The disk is still being accessed, > so I assume things are still running, but the monitor lights show me > that it thinks it doesn't have a signal. I'm assuming that this is > related to the changeover from text mode to the graphical UI... > > The only thing I did during setup that might affect this was to choose > 1024 by 768 rather than the default 800 by 600... > > Any suggestions gratefully received! > > julian > > Templeman Consulting Ltd. > London and North Wales
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