Hope this does not duplicate to the same place, but I sent the following message to a different input. Here it is: I have tried 4 or 5 times to install Centos 7,* and it seems to install, but it won't boot to KDE or any desktop. It comes up in text mode, and nothing I do will get it into a kde mode. Or any graphic mode, that I know of. I have enabled a root password, and a user password. I am trying to install on a SSD of 250 GB. The installation appears to work, but it boots to black screen with white letters. It appears to accept some BASH commands, but it does not respond to startx or startkde. It appears to respond to su, but that doesn't help. (Or sudo, either, but I'm used to su.) I have tried to clear the SSD completely so there are no partitions on it, not even the Windows 1GB boot partition. (I had that, but Centos didn't work so I eliminated it.) * I downloaded a number of tries and burned each to DVD, (one appeared to be defective) but none of them worked. It would help, perhaps, if the downloads included a verification. I really want an RPM system with kde, and I used PCLOS for years, but the latest version is a great disappointment, and the last upgrade crashed the machine, which is why I, having tried their April release, I am coming to CentOS--or trying to. I don't know what information I can provide, but the bare-bones of the system are this: MOBO: Foxxconn G41MXE/G41MXS-K BIOS: American Megatrends id:0 version 080015, date 10/14/210 CPU: Intel Cor2Duo E8600 @ 3.33GHz Width 64 bits Closck 333MHz Memory 8Gib Display: NVidia GF 116 All of this worked perfectly with PCLOS for many years. Please help! Thanx--doug
On Sat, 27 Apr 2019 20:18:40 -0400 Doug wrote:> I have tried 4 or 5 times to install Centos 7,* and it seems to install, > but it won't boot to KDE or any desktop. It comes up in text mode, and > nothing I do will get it into a kde mode.Try booting one of the "live images" and see if it will work that way. A gui should just show up by magic when it finishes booting. You can install Centos directly from the live image if it works. -- MELVILLE THEATRE ~ Real D 3D Digital Cinema ~ www.melvilletheatre.com
On 04/27/2019 09:21 PM, Frank Cox wrote:> On Sat, 27 Apr 2019 20:18:40 -0400 > Doug wrote: > >> I have tried 4 or 5 times to install Centos 7,* and it seems to install, >> but it won't boot to KDE or any desktop. It comes up in text mode, and >> nothing I do will get it into a kde mode. > Try booting one of the "live images" and see if it will work that way. A gui should just show up by magic when it finishes booting. > > You can install Centos directly from the live image if it works. >I downloaded Centos-7.0-1406x86_64.kdelive.iso, and started it on the machine that I described, which has the 250GB SSD on it. I used the provided md5sum to make sure what I was burning was correct. I then burned the disk with k3B verify, for both the md5sum and the actual download file, and burned the DVD with "verify" which succeded. I started to install the DVD at 10:45 PM on Saturday, and it is now 12:45 AM Sunday Morning. A long incremented list of large numbers followed by the words, "EXPERIMENTAL Support Enabled" has been running ever since. I expect it will still be running in the morning when I get up, and after church, when I get home at 1:15PM. *********************************** Is it possible to 1: Get a specification of the computer characteristics on which Centos will run? 1a. Get the computer requirements, especially necescary disk space? 2: Purchase a copy of a disk which is guaranteed to run a CentOS KDE system on the computer which I have described, and and if so, from whom? --doug
On Apr 27, 2019, at 8:18 PM, Doug <dmcgarrett at optonline.net> wrote:> Or any graphic mode, that I know of. I have enabled a root password, and a user password. I am trying to install on a SSD of 250 GB. The installation appears to work, but it > > boots to black screen with white letters. It appears to accept some BASH commands, but it does not respond to startx or startkde. It appears to respond to su, but that doesn'tThis is a pretty vague description. Does it boot into the multi-user.target, i.e. the non-graphical login prompt? Are you prompted for a username and password at a login prompt, or just root?s password? It sounds to me like you?re stuck at the emergency rescue shell and not a fully booted system. -- Jonathan Billings <billings at negate.org>