only boots to grub

[sharpblade78]

I just loaded Fedora 9 and Amahi on my system and after the reboot it goes to grub. I have 2 problems I guess I do not have any clue what to do with grub and how do I get to the graphical user interface I guess how do I get Fedora to load? Please help I am lost.

[gmw]

It's tough to guess at your situation.
Is the "reboot" you are talking about the one at the bottom of this page: http://www.amahi.org/instructions/install_amahi ?

[sharpblade78]

Thanks for the reply I am new to forums too so I will try to be more descriptive. I would provide a link to the install page right now but I can not I will later. However it starts from the first time the system reboots after I do the initial install. I even tried to install without using the amahi depository and I got the same results. thanks again I will get a better description later on today. I hope that this helps though. I guess I never get to the fedora desk top.

[gmw]

Thanks for the reply I am new to forums too so I will try to be more descriptive. I would provide a link to the install page right now but I can not I will later. However it starts from the first time the system reboots after I do the initial install. I even tried to install without using the amahi depository and I got the same results. thanks again I will get a better description later on today. I hope that this helps though. I guess I never get to the fedora desk top.

Sounds like a Fedora 9 install issue -- maybe best to check with Fedora

[moredruid]

do you get a grub screen counting down before the default choice is started?
if so, you might be able to boot into single mode and see if that works.

Also: is this a dual boot install? if so: have you installed Grub (the bootloader) in MBR? if you didn't, Windows will start because of a pointer in the MBR.

If no dual boot: if you have a linux live distribution you can boot from that distro and wipe the MBR on your harddisk (WATCH IT: this will render previously loaded data useless!) with the following command: (/dev/sda is your first drive, so make sure this is your primary harddrive from which you want to boot & install on)

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dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda bs=1M count=1

and then try to install Fedora again and see if everything comes up...

[rampage355]

I had the same issue, instead of booting into a GUI it drops you at a command line, I myself like it better since it is a headless machine Just log in as your user and type "startx", as to why it happened I am not sure.

[moredruid]

ahhh maybe he has modified his initlevel to 3 instead of 5 (I recall reading something like that somewhere on the site), this drops you in network multi user mode, init level 5 is graphical like Rampage stated.

logging in as root and typing "init 5" should fix it too instead of "startx"

[rampage355]

init 5 did not work for me
can't vnc into that machine
[root@localhost]# init 5
bash: init: command not found
[root@localhost]#