From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1RDM7A-0006Ek-I1 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 10 Oct 2011 20:06:21 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id EF0E121C293; Mon, 10 Oct 2011 20:06:04 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-qy0-f181.google.com (mail-qy0-f181.google.com [209.85.216.181]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DE93221C238 for ; Mon, 10 Oct 2011 20:04:48 +0000 (UTC) Received: by qyk7 with SMTP id 7so5823163qyk.19 for ; Mon, 10 Oct 2011 13:04:48 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject :x-enigmail-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=egFrRfHF61oqyVG07S4+ZeuoA0+mFp331VNy8OQ/22A=; b=u3zr+21gFDYgA1XxeI/OvGudGje0IRoXgaeoM0nqY8mQaouwj/dG9Mm6xqdVBAKHfz r60+tuZOofZmuo35wqt36hPjsY603N8y5J+Uxdk7TxsR4GmRdrgpRDLecrx8np+HEBU7 dJsx5ur1VD6K+BnPRlCoaICHIGvMxZ0WTzFbI= Received: by 10.229.40.137 with SMTP id k9mr70300qce.100.1318277086552; Mon, 10 Oct 2011 13:04:46 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [192.168.2.11] (bas1-hamilton02-1176443208.dsl.bell.ca. [70.31.25.72]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id cl1sm24262034qab.0.2011.10.10.13.04.45 (version=SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Mon, 10 Oct 2011 13:04:45 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4E93504A.8090402@gmail.com> Date: Mon, 10 Oct 2011 16:06:34 -0400 From: CJoeB User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.2.17) Gecko/20110602 Lightning/1.0b2 Thunderbird/3.1.10 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-user] Gentoo Install Issue X-Enigmail-Version: 1.1.2 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: 748d24a678754807a0edc48f2f5ab114 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 --=20 Registered Linux User #411143 with the Linux Counter, http://counter.li.o= rg