Description of problem: With Fedora 16 (and earlier) the system entered graphics mode very early when booting (in fact root filesystem is encrypted and its password is requested already in graphics mode. I did a fresh install of Fedora 17 from DVD, with more or less the same set of packages as before, and preserving the same partitioning structure (Only primary partitions, I don't use LVM and I use software raid 0. Boot partition is in one disk and swap and root partitions are two raid 0 devices). Now it boots in text mode. It doesn't look even to try to start in graphics mode nor it gives any error message in console. At first it talked about not finding font file True (there is another bug about this), but I worked it around, there is no such message now, and it still boots in text mode. My machine is a Core i7 920 with 12 Gb DDR3 1066, dual channel, in 6 2Gb DIMM's. The motherboard is an Asus P6T SE with last BIOS upgrade (release 0908). The graphics card is an Asus EAH4550 (radeon 4550, PCI express). It has 5 SATA2 Seagate disks, a 500Gb one and four 1.5Tb ones. The 500Gb one holds the boot partition and the rest is dedicated to Windows 7. The 1.5Tb ones hold two primary software raid partitions each: a 6Gb one for swap and the rest for root partition. Therefore, raid device md0 is 24Gb big and is composed by the 4 6Gb partitions in raid0. raid device md1 is composed by the other 4 partitions in raid0 too. Encryption is done at software raid partition level, not at raid device level. I selected to install grub in the boot sector of the boot partition (/dev/sda1). This is a must, as some Windows upgrades require to change the active partition to Windows partition using fdisk in the usual MBR partition table. As I say, this exact configuration worked before. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): kernel-3.3.4-5.fc17.x86_64 kernel-3.3.7-1.fc17.x86_64 Happens both with default kernel from distribution and the update kernel 3.3.7-1. How reproducible: Well, difficult to say, as it doesn't happen in other machines. I just installed from DVD. Chose custom partitioning and selected formatting all devices. Steps to Reproduce: 1. Install Fedora 17 from DVD in that hardware and partition configuration 2. Boot Fedora 17 Actual results: Fedora boots in text mode. Only switches to graphics mode when starting X. Expected results: Fedora boots, as before, in graphics mode from the beginning. Additional info: Sorry, I'm a bit lost and I don't know what info to provide to help. I didn't even know what component to select for this bug. Feel free to ask for any info you need.
Can you attach the output of "rpm -qa | sort", and attach /proc/cmdline?
Thanks for the fast response. I will as soon as I'm in front of that computer.
Created attachment 590584 [details] Output of dmesg
Created attachment 590585 [details] Output of rpm -qa|sort
Created attachment 590586 [details] /proc/cmdline
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