boot problems with D620 fedora core 7

[mark birchfield]

I am working with a friend on installing fedora 7 from dvd onto a Latitude D620. The installation appears to work just fine, with no noticable issues. Once I go to reboot the laptop though, it starts grub, goes to unpack the kernel and just sits there. I dont see any errors come up, no kernel panics, etc. Has anyone else encountered these issues with either core 7 or the D620? What are some things I can check to see what the problem may be?

[saikee]

It may be just a break down in the communication by a mismatch of the video driver.

Can you get terminal mode by pressing ctrl+alt+F1?

If you can just edit configuration file /etc/X11/xorg.conf and try again.

[DrChuck]

Fedora uses the graphical boot by default, and it sounds like you aren't even getting that far. If you can edit your grub.conf using the rescue disk, try removing the "rhgb" from the kernel line.

[d_casper]

There is no need to use Rescue disk.

In GRUB Menu, highlight Fedora title and press 'e'. Select 'kernel' line, press 'e' again and add <space> 3 at the end of line. Press 'Enter' key and press 'b'. Fedora will boot in Command Line Mode will drop you on command line login prompt. Log in as root and execute this
system-config-display
Configure Display and Resolutions. In case your Monitor is not listed in Monitors List, select 'Generic' Monitor.
reboot.

[sinastis]

There is no need to use Rescue disk.

In GRUB Menu, highlight Fedora title and press 'e'. Select 'kernel' line, press 'e' again and add <space> 3 at the end of line. Press 'Enter' key and press 'b'. Fedora will boot in Command Line Mode will drop you on command line login prompt. Log in as root and execute this
system-config-display
Configure Display and Resolutions. In case your Monitor is not listed in Monitors List, select 'Generic' Monitor.
reboot.
Try adding clocksource=acpi_pm for the kernel parameters in grub at startup