Bug 126926
| Summary: | Blank screen on installer startup (text mode) | ||
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| Product: | [Fedora] Fedora | Reporter: | Rafal Smyka <rsy> |
| Component: | anaconda | Assignee: | Jeremy Katz <katzj> |
| Status: | CLOSED DUPLICATE | QA Contact: | Mike McLean <mikem> |
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | medium | ||
| Version: | 2 | CC: | gajownik |
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | i386 | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
| Doc Text: | Story Points: | --- | |
| Clone Of: | Environment: | ||
| Last Closed: | 2006-02-21 19:04:16 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
| Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |
| Verified Versions: | Category: | --- | |
| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
| Cloudforms Team: | --- | Target Upstream Version: | |
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*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 121819 *** Changed to 'CLOSED' state since 'RESOLVED' has been deprecated. |
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040626 Firefox/0.9.1 Description of problem: Not sure if anaconda is a right component to report. I haven't found anything better though. My screen goes blank when I start installation. I boot from FC2 CD1. Then on boot prompt I proceed. Then I can see 'loading vmlinuz...', 'loading initrd.img...' and then it switches to darkness. My hardware is: Nvidia GeForce2 MX-200, motherboard Asus P4S333. I tried to run installer on another PC and it was fine there. I ran mediacheck there and it succedded for all the CDs. I thought it could have been the fb problem, so I tried nofb, text, skipddc, noprobe arguments in different combinations. No result. Then I tried to press random keys on my keyboard. Hitting enter caused my CD spinning for a while. Apparently it was performing mediacheck. So the good news was, the installer was running, only the display failed. This brought me to another Idea. I restarted install, and when it stopped, I pressed right arrow key and then enter to bypass the mediacheck. And the miracle happened - the graphical installer started and I could see it! Then I could proceed with install. Funny thing is that when my graphical installer opens, I can switch to the text consoles (Alt+F1, 2, etc.) and they work. So the screen is blank only until the graphical mode is started. So finally I succeeded with installation. Now I have the same behaviour on system load. When I start loading from grub, my screen goes blank and then it switches to a graphical mode. Afterwards the virtual text consoles work fine. If I start to boot to a text mode, I cannot see anything. It looks like it switched to a text mode my card doesn't support on boot. BTW, I had installed on the machine Aurox Linux and it was fine. I guess it is based on RH9. So I pressume that RH9 installation would work. I searched the web for similiar problem but haven't seen anything like that. Perhaps my video card is somehow broken. But why can I see the text consoles after the graph mode has been initialized then? Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Boot from install CD1. 2. On boot prompt press enter. 3. The screen goes blank. Additional info: