Linux Fedora 12 strange Boot Problem

maddy_in65

maddy_in65

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My lappy is Quad booting with Fedora 12, Opensuse, Karmic and Vista. I have installed Suse then Fedora 12 and then ubuntu on vista system. After Fedora installation i am able to boot into Fedora and i have installed Fedora with basic driver mode. At the time of installation due to video driver issue, i cant see installation menu so i choose install with basic driver.

Now after installing ubuntu some thing went wrong and i have problem with fedora drive. First Grub2 doesn't detect Fedora even after grub-update. I managed to edit Custom 40 entries and Grub2 showing manual fedora entry.

After selecting Fedora i get a blue screen and fedora logo at the right bottom. i think this is due to resolution issue. But i cant understand even after installing fedora with basic driver, i got login window properly. I cant figure out the problem and cant find solution for it. Is it due to grub2 which keep high resolution. I have attached photo taken at the time of Fedora booting.

 
assuming its ubuntu's grub2 in action, what are the contents of your /etc/default/grub file?

check GFXMODE set it to something low like 1024x768 and GRUB_GFXPAYLOAD=1024x768 also.... but im not really sure since i don tknow what is "your lappy" model...

try google you will get better and faster results...

btw good job quad booting! now if you get rid of vista you will all the linux zealots proud! :D
 
vishalrao said:
assuming its ubuntu's grub2 in action, what are the contents of your /etc/default/grub file?

check GFXMODE set it to something low like 1024x768 and GRUB_GFXPAYLOAD=1024x768 also.... but im not really sure since i don tknow what is "your lappy" model...

try google you will get better and faster results...

btw good job quad booting! now if you get rid of vista you will all the linux zealots proud! :D
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I will check the GFXMODE value as i am in the office now. But i dont think there is any issue with this as I am able to boot Ubuntu, suse and vista. BTW its Ubuntu Grub2.
I have googled a lot but dont find proper solution. BTW i have noticed only one difference between Grub2 entry and Fedora bootloader entry as mentioned below, does it make any difference

title Fedora (2.6.31.5-127.fc12.x86_64)
root (hd0,6)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.31.5-127.fc12.x86_64 ro root=UUID=9405aab3-dc86-493a-a501-101a1c8d6c14 nomodeset LANG=en_US.UTF-8 SYSFONT=latarcyrheb-sun16 KEYBOARDTYPE=pc KEYTABLE=us rhgb quiet
initrd /boot/initramfs-2.6.31.5-127.fc12.x86_64.img

menuentry "Fedora 12 Constantine" {
set root=(hd0,7)
search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set 9405aab3-dc86-493a-a501-101a1c8d6c14
linux /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.31.5-127.fc12.x86_64 ro root=UUID=9405aab3-dc86-493a-a501-101a1c8d6c14 LANG=en_US.UTF-8 SYSFONT=latarcyrheb-sun16 KEYBOARDTYPE=pc KEYTABLE=us rhgb quiet
initrd /boot/initramfs-2.6.31.5-127.fc12.x86_64.img

I am using linux from a long time and it was my primary OS. However i kept Vista if i require it.
 
yes please add that nomodeset thing to 40_custom and run "sudo update-grub" again while booted in ubuntu - looks like KMS may not be working well for your laptop video card (whatever it is)...
 
title Fedora (2.6.31.5-127.fc12.x86_64)
root (hd0,6)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.31.5-127.fc12.x86_64 ro root=UUID=9405aab3-dc86-493a-a501-101a1c8d6c14 nomodeset LANG=en_US.UTF-8 SYSFONT=latarcyrheb-sun16 KEYBOARDTYPE=pc KEYTABLE=us rhgb quiet
initrd /boot/initramfs-2.6.31.5-127.fc12.x86_64.img

Wow, i have solved my problem. This nomodeset was the reason behind this.
Vishalji thanks for the help.
 
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