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From: CJoeB <colleen.beamer@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: [gentoo-user] Gentoo Install Issue
Date: Mon, 10 Oct 2011 16:06:34 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4E93504A.8090402@gmail.com> (raw)

Hi Everyone,

I hope someone will be able to "lead me by the nose" here.

For a number of weeks now, I have been trying to install Gentoo on my
new desktop.  I kept running into issues and due to time constraints
when I was installing, I put off trying to resolve them.

Today, I went through the install process, had a couple of issues, but
was able to figure them out and got to the point where I was supposed to
boot into my new system.  I got the boot menu, the boot process seemed
to be okay, but when I got to the point where I assumed I should get a
command prompt to finish up, all I got was a weird screen that was half
black and half fuzzy with a bunch of colours (sorry, I can describe this
any better).  I tried recompiling the kernel thinking it was a problem
that I had created during the initial compilation, but that ended with
the same result.

The computer is a Dell XPS 8300
It has a Radeon graphics card, but I wouldn't think this would be an
issue until I tried to install X.

Does anyone have any ideas?

Regards,

Colleen

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Registered Linux User #411143 with the Linux Counter, http://counter.li.org





             reply	other threads:[~2011-10-10 20:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-10-10 20:06 CJoeB [this message]
2011-10-10 20:17 ` [gentoo-user] Gentoo Install Issue Michael Mol
2011-10-10 20:31   ` CJoeB
2011-10-10 20:35     ` Michael Mol
2011-10-10 20:35     ` Mark Knecht
2011-10-10 20:43     ` David Abbott
2011-10-15 20:07       ` CJoeB
2011-10-15 20:21         ` Michael Schreckenbauer
2011-10-15 22:44           ` CJoeB
2011-10-16 12:06             ` James Broadhead
2011-10-16 14:58               ` CJoeB
2011-10-16 20:14                 ` Dale
2011-10-16 20:19                   ` Alan McKinnon
2011-10-16 21:09                     ` CJoeB
2011-10-17  3:02                       ` Dale
2011-10-16 21:22                     ` Neil Bothwick
2011-10-16 21:33                       ` Alan McKinnon
2011-10-16 21:56                       ` CJoeB
2011-10-16 22:17                         ` Mick
2011-10-17  0:22                     ` CJoeB
2011-10-17  0:38                       ` Adam Carter
2011-10-17  1:46                         ` CJoeB
2011-10-17  2:01                           ` Andrey Moshbear
2011-10-17  2:06                             ` Adam Carter
2011-10-17  3:10                               ` Andrey Moshbear
2011-10-10 21:05     ` Alan Mackenzie
2011-10-10 21:30       ` CJoeB
2011-10-10 20:20 ` Mark Knecht
2011-10-10 20:36 ` Mick
2011-10-11  5:55 ` Graham Murray

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