[GRLUG] Fedora 19 gray screen

[Patrick Goupell]

Is this the first boot after install or have you been able to login 
successfully in the past?


On 12/18/2013 03:03 PM, Robert Youngs, Jr. wrote:
> 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
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> This is a machine intended for dual boot and Windows 7 is already installed.
> Ubuntu 10.04 has been previously installed on the machine.
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> 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.
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> Robert
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> On Dec 18, 2013, at 2:49 PM, Greg Folkert <greg at gregfolkert.net> wrote:
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>> 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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