Black screen installing Fedora Core 6

jimnl69 · External Since: May 01, 2007 Posts: 4

I'm trying to install Fedora Core 6 on my machine. My system is as
follows:

AMD Athlon XP 2000+
MSI KT3 Ultra2 Motherboard
1.5gig RAM
ATI Radeon 9000 (I believe this is my problem)

When I start the install in text mode, I get to a blue screen and my
DVD stops and that's it. When I start the install in graphical mode, I
get to a black screen with a mouse cursor (X) that I can move around,
my DVD stops and that's it.

When flipping through the screens, the last things I see are:

Ctrl-Alt-F1: Starting graphical Installation...
Alt-F2: Bash-3.1#
Alt-F3: INFO : no /tmp/fcpconfig; not configuring zfcp

I can install FC6 in a Windows VMWare session on this machine just
fine. Any help would be greatly appreciated!

jimnl69 · External Since: May 01, 2007 Posts: 4

On May 2, 12:32 pm, GH <dtona... RemoveThis @gmail.com> wrote:
> jimn... RemoveThis @hotmail.com wrote:
> > I'm trying to install Fedora Core 6 on my machine. My system is as
> > follows:
>
> > AMD Athlon XP 2000+
> > MSI KT3 Ultra2 Motherboard
> > 1.5gig RAM
> > ATI Radeon 9000 (I believe this is my problem)
>
> > When I start the install in text mode, I get to a blue screen and my
> > DVD stops and that's it. When I start the install in graphical mode, I
> > get to a black screen with a mouse cursor (X) that I can move around,
> > my DVD stops and that's it.
>
> > When flipping through the screens, the last things I see are:
>
> > Ctrl-Alt-F1: Starting graphical Installation...
> > Alt-F2: Bash-3.1#
> > Alt-F3: INFO : no /tmp/fcpconfig; not configuring zfcp
>
> > I can install FC6 in a Windows VMWare session on this machine just
> > fine. Any help would be greatly appreciated!
>
> did you test your dvd to ensure it's not corrupted?

Yes, I tested it and it was fine. As I also stated, I used this same
DVD to install just fine within a Windows VMWare session.

GH · External Since: May 02, 2007 Posts: 1

jimnl69.TakeThisOut@hotmail.com wrote:
> I'm trying to install Fedora Core 6 on my machine. My system is as
> follows:
>
> AMD Athlon XP 2000+
> MSI KT3 Ultra2 Motherboard
> 1.5gig RAM
> ATI Radeon 9000 (I believe this is my problem)
>
> When I start the install in text mode, I get to a blue screen and my
> DVD stops and that's it. When I start the install in graphical mode, I
> get to a black screen with a mouse cursor (X) that I can move around,
> my DVD stops and that's it.
>
> When flipping through the screens, the last things I see are:
>
> Ctrl-Alt-F1: Starting graphical Installation...
> Alt-F2: Bash-3.1#
> Alt-F3: INFO : no /tmp/fcpconfig; not configuring zfcp
>
> I can install FC6 in a Windows VMWare session on this machine just
> fine. Any help would be greatly appreciated!
>
did you test your dvd to ensure it's not corrupted?

Robert Heiling · External Since: Jul 30, 2005 Posts: 27

jimnl69.TakeThisOut@hotmail.com wrote:
>
> I'm trying to install Fedora Core 6 on my machine. My system is as
> follows:
>
> AMD Athlon XP 2000+
> MSI KT3 Ultra2 Motherboard
> 1.5gig RAM
> ATI Radeon 9000 (I believe this is my problem)
>
> When I start the install in text mode, I get to a blue screen and my
> DVD stops and that's it. When I start the install in graphical mode, I
> get to a black screen with a mouse cursor (X) that I can move around,
> my DVD stops and that's it.
>
> When flipping through the screens, the last things I see are:
>
> Ctrl-Alt-F1: Starting graphical Installation...
> Alt-F2: Bash-3.1#
> Alt-F3: INFO : no /tmp/fcpconfig; not configuring zfcp
>
> I can install FC6 in a Windows VMWare session on this machine just
> fine. Any help would be greatly appreciated!

What worked for me was to pass it acpi=off at boot time. There are a number of
those different parameters, but this one seems to cure the problem with a number
of motherboards.

HTH
Bob

jimnl69 · External Since: May 01, 2007 Posts: 4

On May 2, 3:38 pm, Robert Heiling <robh....RemoveThis@comcast.net> wrote:
> jimn....RemoveThis@hotmail.com wrote:
>
> > I'm trying to install Fedora Core 6 on my machine. My system is as
> > follows:
>
> > AMD Athlon XP 2000+
> > MSI KT3 Ultra2 Motherboard
> > 1.5gig RAM
> > ATI Radeon 9000 (I believe this is my problem)
>
> > When I start the install in text mode, I get to a blue screen and my
> > DVD stops and that's it. When I start the install in graphical mode, I
> > get to a black screen with a mouse cursor (X) that I can move around,
> > my DVD stops and that's it.
>
> > When flipping through the screens, the last things I see are:
>
> > Ctrl-Alt-F1: Starting graphical Installation...
> > Alt-F2: Bash-3.1#
> > Alt-F3: INFO : no /tmp/fcpconfig; not configuring zfcp
>
> > I can install FC6 in a Windows VMWare session on this machine just
> > fine. Any help would be greatly appreciated!
>
> What worked for me was to pass it acpi=off at boot time. There are a number of
> those different parameters, but this one seems to cure the problem with a number
> of motherboards.
>
> HTH
> Bob

I assume you mean to type "linux acpi=off" when booting? I gave that
a shot and it stopped at the same place with the same results. Sad

Jim

John Williams · External Since: Nov 10, 2005 Posts: 3

jimnl69 DeleteThis @hotmail.com wrote:
> I'm trying to install Fedora Core 6 on my machine. My system is as
> follows:
>
> AMD Athlon XP 2000+
> MSI KT3 Ultra2 Motherboard
> 1.5gig RAM
> ATI Radeon 9000 (I believe this is my problem)
>
> When I start the install in text mode, I get to a blue screen and my
> DVD stops and that's it. When I start the install in graphical mode, I
> get to a black screen with a mouse cursor (X) that I can move around,
> my DVD stops and that's it.
>
> When flipping through the screens, the last things I see are:
>
> Ctrl-Alt-F1: Starting graphical Installation...
> Alt-F2: Bash-3.1#
> Alt-F3: INFO : no /tmp/fcpconfig; not configuring zfcp
>
> I can install FC6 in a Windows VMWare session on this machine just
> fine. Any help would be greatly appreciated!
>

To get the Fedora 6 live CD to boot on my system I needed the boot time option
ide=nodma.

John

jimnl69 · External Since: May 01, 2007 Posts: 4

On May 5, 10:52 am, John Williams <jr.willi... RemoveThis @tiscali.co.uk> wrote:
> jimn... RemoveThis @hotmail.com wrote:
> > I'm trying to install Fedora Core 6 on my machine. My system is as
> > follows:
>
> > AMD Athlon XP 2000+
> > MSI KT3 Ultra2 Motherboard
> > 1.5gig RAM
> > ATI Radeon 9000 (I believe this is my problem)
>
> > When I start the install in text mode, I get to a blue screen and my
> > DVD stops and that's it. When I start the install in graphical mode, I
> > get to a black screen with a mouse cursor (X) that I can move around,
> > my DVD stops and that's it.
>
> > When flipping through the screens, the last things I see are:
>
> > Ctrl-Alt-F1: Starting graphical Installation...
> > Alt-F2: Bash-3.1#
> > Alt-F3: INFO : no /tmp/fcpconfig; not configuring zfcp
>
> > I can install FC6 in a Windows VMWare session on this machine just
> > fine. Any help would be greatly appreciated!
>
> To get the Fedora 6 live CD to boot on my system I needed the boot time option
> ide=nodma.
>
> John

Thanks.. I tried that but no go... Black screen with mouse X mouse
cursor. It's really ticking me off. I'll keep trying as I find more
options but I'm about to give up on my attempt at learning linux...