27 Feb
2004
27 Feb
'04
2:31 p.m.
This question is really more related to installing
drivers to a
"non-booted" kernel.
My computer has an ASUS MB. The video (non-integrated) and network
require the nforce drivers from NVidia. I had manually installed
some audio tools including a lowlat kernel under RedHat 9. But I
decided to install Fedora Core 1 and use Planet CCRMA.
So I installed the CCRMA kernel and source. I didn't expect the
network or graphics to work when I booted the new kernel b/c I'd need
to install the NVidia drivers again under the new kernel. But when
Fedora got to the "graphic" portion of the bootup, the screen went
blank. I thought I'd just switch to VC1 and install from a text
logon, but I was never able to switch to VC1.
Probably because it is not yet in multiuser mode.
You could try to boot into single user mode. At the grub prompt select
the kernel you want to boot into and type "e" (edit), go to the kernel
boot line and type "e" again. Go to the end of the line, erase the last
entry (can't remember the spelling but that is what starts the graphical
boot) and replace it with "single" (without the '"''s). Press
"b" to
boot. You should eventually get a root prompt and you can then install
the drivers...
-- Fernando