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Windows Forum / Virtual PC / November 2003RedHat 9 - Virtual PC 5.2
HELP, PLEASE!! I am trying to install RedHat 9 on the Connectix Virtual PC 5.2 (acquired by Microsoft). During installation video is superb, however when I complete installation and select a monitor things begin to go south... Upon reboot after installation I receive the GRUB screen which shows properly, after selection an oblong black screen with white pixels (scroll bars on bottom & side). I can sort of make out what it says, but I can't get the video adjusted to show up properly (don't know how to select a different video setting from GRUB screen). Everything works great throughout setup... Installing from 3 CD set, not images. VPC captures CD drive without issue... Hardware: HP Pavilion zd7030us -P4 3.2Ghz w/ 1GB RAM -DVD+RW -WXGA+ display (1440x990) -nVidia 5600 (128MB) -Microsoft Intellimouse Optical (USB) > HELP, PLEASE!! > [quoted text clipped - 21 lines] > -nVidia 5600 (128MB) > -Microsoft Intellimouse Optical (USB) I got the exact same problem. I was installing and seeing Linux for the first time and so have no idea what I am supposed to do. Quite disappionted, not that its any fault fo Linux, or MS at that as I understand that it is not supported. Anyone got any ideas how to fix? It took hours and hours to install and I don't really fancy installing again! Cheers Poch Try using an unspecified monitor it worked for me Bud >-----Original Message----- >> HELP, PLEASE!! [quoted text clipped - 33 lines] > >. I believe I have resolved the problem. I reinstalled, selecting 1024x768 Laptop display, and 16bit color depth. Hey, it works! :) Bret >-----Original Message----- >> HELP, PLEASE!! [quoted text clipped - 33 lines] > >. Greetings, VPC 5.2 and consequently VPC 2004 only supports 8, 16 and 32 bit color depths. Linux by default sets itself up for 24bits. Thats why you get a wonky screen. > I believe I have resolved the problem. I reinstalled, > selecting 1024x768 Laptop display, and 16bit color depth. [quoted text clipped - 48 lines] > > > >. When the GRUB screen appears, type "e" to edit the GRUB config. Use the arrow keys to highlight the kernel line. Type "e" to edit that line. Add " 3" to the end of the line, for example: kernel /vmlinuz-2.4... ro root=LABEL=/ 3 Press Enter to accept the changes, and then press "b" to boot. This should make Linux boot into text mode instead of graphic mode. Login as root. Type in the following command: redhat-config-xfree86 --reconfig Wait for the graphical screen to appear, and then select your desired resolution (800x600) and color depth, click OK, and OK again. Now reboot and you should be all set. Hope that helps... Rick > HELP, PLEASE!! > [quoted text clipped - 21 lines] > -nVidia 5600 (128MB) > -Microsoft Intellimouse Optical (USB) If you've got a boot disk that you created during install, you can also just type "linux 3" at the boot prompt. Note that if you are in single user mode ("linux 1", or "linux s") I don't think the X server gets started so - -reconfig won't work. Oddly, though, it won't accept a resolution higher than 800x600. If I pick, say, 1024x768 it seems OK and says I have to restart X, but when I do (or if I reboot) it is still 800x600. I tried settings 8MB video ram for the S3 card rather than the default 4MB, but that didn't have any effect. So I'm stuck with a rather low-resolution screen... >-----Original Message----- >When the GRUB screen appears, type "e" to edit the GRUB config. [quoted text clipped - 46 lines] > >. I'm wondering now if it is my choice of monitor. Does VPC emulate some sort of monitor or does it use the host monitor? Do I need the actual driver for the real physical monitor (not sure I have one for Linux), or can I use some sort of generic but reasonably-capable driver that will let me use a sensible (i.e. 1024 or higher) screen size? >-----Original Message----- >If you've got a boot disk that you created during [quoted text clipped - 75 lines] >> >. You could try using "Generic VESA" instead of the s3 drivers and see if you can get higher resolution using them. It may happen that the s3 drivers only find 4 mb of vram. you can't use the default 24-bit color for X-Windows. There are installation instructions for RH9 under VPC 5.2 here: http://www.essjae.com/VPC/virtual_pc_downloads.htm >HELP, PLEASE!! > [quoted text clipped - 21 lines] >-nVidia 5600 (128MB) >-Microsoft Intellimouse Optical (USB) |
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