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Old 1st September 2009, 09:33 PM
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black screen and message "cannot display this mode 2:dvi-d" during F11 install

Questions at the bottom:

F9 has been running great since it came out

I read that one should install F10 before F11 so I did install F10!

Everything went great.

(1) Then I tried to install the F11 iso dvd. After the "anaconda started"
message at the bottom of a blue screen, the screen went blank and occasionally
the message would appear:

"cannot display this mode 2:dvi-d"

Thinking the monitor had gone into power save, I hit many keys and moved the
mouse to no avail.

I gave up! BTW I had checked all media CDs for errors.

(2) then working under F10, a little message appeared from the lower right of
the screen asking if I wanted to upgrade to F11.

I accepted and again "cannot display this mode 2:dvi-d" on a black screen

after anaconda started on a blue screen. This time no ISO DVD F11. I've never seen

such an error message in 11 years (off and on) of using Linux.

HD Disk activity was showing on the disk activity light so I let it run all

night and part of today. I hit a bunch of keys and moved the mouse and the blue

screen returned saying all was done and restarting.

After restart, I seem to have F11 installed. I did a yum update and got some

more F11 updates.

On the grub screen, the only F11 kernel was the PAE kernel which I selected
and got:

[oracle@Eugene OCI_NavSysError]$ uname -a
Linux Eugene 2.6.27.29-170.2.78.fc10.i686 #1 SMP Fri Jul 31 04:40:15 EDT 2009
i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux

Does F11 have any F11 kernels?

BTW running >setup (hd0,0) under F10 grub ruined my XP prof OS on scsi 0 so I

reloaded XP Prof from scratch.

Questions:

(1) what is this "cannot display this mode 2:dvi-d" ???

(2) Now I cannot boot to Fedora 11 and all the advice on how to reinstall

grub has failed failed. Did a rescue and chroot /mnt/sysimage and the fdisk -l

Now XP Prof seems to be on /dev/sdc and Fedora on /dev/sdd. What do I do?

In the meantime I have retreated to Fedora 10.

Somebody else had similar problems!

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=494344
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Old 2nd September 2009, 01:01 AM
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"Does F11 have any F11 kernels?"

Yes. Look in your /boot directory for the kernel and the initrd files. There was a problem with grubby in F11 where it doesn't copy the information for the new kernel into /boot/grub/grub.conf, so you need to hand edit the file. I just copy the previous entry and then paste over the Title kernel and initrd lines with the right file names.
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Old 2nd September 2009, 01:04 AM
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"(1) what is this "cannot display this mode 2:dvi-d" ???"

Could be a problem with the new version of X windows with your video card or a kernel modesetting problem. Try adding the keyword "nomodeset" to your kernel command line and see if detects your display better.
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