[GRLUG] Fedora 19 gray screen

[Robert Youngs, Jr.]

The machine is an older Dell Dimension with:
2 GHz Celeron processor
2 GB RAM
ATI Radeon 128 MB video display
150 GB SATA HDD

This is a machine intended for dual boot and Windows 7 is already installed.
Ubuntu 10.04 has been previously installed on the machine.

I installed Fedora from DVD and installation went fine.

The symptoms are from cold boots.  Fedora either does not boot
at all or hangs at a blank, gray screen after login is attempted.


Robert





On Dec 18, 2013, at 2:49 PM, Greg Folkert <greg at gregfolkert.net> wrote:

> On Wed, 2013-12-18 at 12:13 -0500, Robert Youngs Jr wrote:
>> I have a lower spec machine that definitely meets Fedora 19's
>> requirements, but I keep getting this gray screen after I try to
>> login.  The other thing is that it may not even boot after selection
>> from GRUB.  Any thoughts?
> 
> My race car definitely meets the lower spec for NASCAR racing... how
> come my car never is able to keep up with the other cars nor win any
> races?
> 
> Or
> 
> Doctor, it hurts when I eat some food. Can you tell me why?
> 
> In other words Robert, we need to know the specs of the machine and what
> video card, amount of memory, type of hard drive setup (dual boot, only
> linux, LiveCD... etc) and does it do it from a COLD boot... or is it
> after a Warm boot from Windows... or any many various other pieces of
> info that could be pertinent. Like how did you install/run Linux on the
> machine.
> 
> So spill it. Then we can help you. Otherwise, it's a shot in the dark.
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