[ilug-tvm] Re: Fedora in trouble

[Syam Krishnan]

Sam.k wrote: hi, sorry for the cachy subject name, but its urgent... my friend uses a dual boot xp/fedora, virus distroyed xp.. so after grub xp wont start, sadly FEDORA ENTERS IN TERMINAL MODE, how to start to gUI mode.... from terminal mode... reply urgent... Did Fedora always enter in terminal mode? Or it started doing so after all the problems? Follow these steps 1. Boot in to Fedora 2. Does the screen flicker/blink, as if trying to start the X server? 3. After logging in in terminal mode, enter: init 3 4. Then: init 5 5. If X doesn't start successfully, copy the file /var/log/messages/Xorg.0.log to a USB drive and post it here PS - In case you don't know how to access your USB drive in terminal mode, 1. As root, execute: /sbin/fdisk -l (that's l = "ell") 2. Your harddrive partitions & USB drive will be listed (as /dev/sd??). Identify it, let's say it's /dev/sdb1 3. Mount it in some path: mkdir /media/test mount /dev/sdb1 /media/test regards, Syam --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ "Freedom is the only law". "Freedom Unplugged" http://www.ilug-tvm.org You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "ilug-tvm" group. To post to this group, send email to ilug-tvm@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to ilug-tvm-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For details visit the website: www.ilug-tvm.org or the google group page: http://groups.google.com/group/ilug-tvm?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---