Multiple issues post install

[matthood]

Hey everyone.

Through multiple disks and downloads, I'm having trouble installing Fedora. Running the livecd and installer results in an error free install, but after rebooting I get:
"No boot device found".

In some forum regarding the same issue in F11, I'm told to boot the live cd, go to troubleshooting, and add "nogpt" to the list of boot commands (press tab). The live cd boots in Gnome fallback with a blurry screen resolution. The install goes well, and I'm able to boot into Fedora, but Gnome is still in fallback mode and and my display can't be detected (hence fallback mode and blurry resolution).

Any help would be appreciated.

[sea]

Hello

First things to know are:
1) Is this issue with F11 or with F15/F16 or even with a rawhide?
2) Is it going to be multi-boot? (eg. Windows & Fedora)
3) How many physical harddisks do you have installed?
4) Do you have an ATI or nVidia Gpu?

[matthood]

1) Absolutely no idea. First time installing Fedora (but I've installed plenty of other distros in the past)

2) No. In the installer I selected use the whole hard drive.

3) 1.

4) No, it's an al cheapo acer laptop.

Thanks for the reply.

[glennzo]

Sea's question #4 is asking what graphics card is in the laptop. Once you get to fallback mode you should be able to use CTRL/ALT/F2 to get a VT (virtual terminal). From there log in as root

PHP Code:

su
<password> 


Type

PHP Code:

lspci | grep VGA 


Post the resultant output here please. Also, while in the VT have a look at /var/log/Xorg.0.log and see if there is anything interesting in there. You would be looking for lines that start with EE. Try

PHP Code:

grep -EE /var/log/Xorg.0.log 


[matthood]

The result of "lspci | grep VGA" is:

00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Mobile GM965/GL960
Integrated Graphics Controller (primary) (rev 03)

.

Grep blinked at me for 2 minutes, so I killed it.
Also, by the way, Gnome 3 ran fine in Arch Linux, and in Fedora prior to "nogpt".

[glennzo]

My bad on the grep Xorg.0.log command. Remove the dash from in front of EE.

PHP Code:

grep EE /var/log/Xorg.0.log 


[matthood]

At first I thought we'd found something

            (WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown.
[        25.703] (II) Loading extension MIT-SCREEN-SAVER

Thanks.

[glennzo]

Assuming this link works for you have a look and see if there may be something that applies to your situation. It is Redhat Bugzilla.

[matthood]

I installed the xorg intel driver and uninstalled vesa. Not a good move, because now I can't boot very far. I could chroot in and fix it, but I'm distro hopping, so I might just give fedora a miss.

Thanks everyone for your help, it is much appreciated. Unless there's something else you want to try, thank you and goodnight.

Matt.