telinit in Fedora3 on Dimension8400

[vito 0]

Dear Friends,

I am new to this forum (to be true it's the first time that

I post a message to a forum)

I would like to know your opinion about a behaviour of my

Linux System that I don't understand

 

My Hardware:

Dell Dimension 8400

Chipset Intel 925X Express ICH6-R

Intel Pentium 4 540 HT 3.20 GHZ

1 GB Memory

1 SATA HardDrive 160 GB

256MB nVidia GeForce 6800

My Software:

WindowsXP SP2

Fedora FC3

 

I work satisfactorily with both OSs.

(I say "satisfactorily" because I could not install the nVidia

driver in FC3, but this is a problem we might speak of, in case, later)

 

My current problem is:

 

I boot Fedora (choosing "Combination" in BIOS)

I login as "vito"

I open an Xterminal

I switch to superuser:

> su -

Password: **********

At the next prompt I write:

> telinit 3

in order to switch to text mode and restart as root.

At this point I would expect a login prompt, as I was used to in the past

with a RedHat6.2 and a Matrox card on an homemade PC.

Instead, the screen goes blank (i.e. black) and the system looks

idle or stopped (no disk activity).

Pressing the "enter" key, the following 6 lines appear on the screen:

Starting pcmcia: [OK]

Starting irqbalance: [OK]

Starting lm_sensors: [OK]

Starting automount:No Mountpoints defined [OK]

Starting hpoj: [OK]

Starting anacron: [OK]

with the cursor blinking at the left, under the last line.

Again the system appears idle.

Pressing CONTROL-ALT-DEL the system closes (several lines with

"Shutting" prefix) and shuts down.

 

Is it a bug? Should I do some special setting in the BIOS?

 

I will apppreciate any comment or suggestion. I feel the Dimension8400

(configured as above) oriented mainly to Windows. Am I wrong?

Thanks and Greetings

 

Vito

 

e-mail: vitodiblas@iol.it

 

[danleff 0]

Look at this article.

 

For more information, see this article as well.

[vito 0]

Hi danleff,

thanks for your fast reply.

I read and tried unsuccessfully the hints of the two articles.

 

The procedure suggested there:

Control+Alt+F1

Enter as root

Enter telinit 3 (or: init 3)

 

gives the same result on Fedora3/Dimension8400 (i.e. blank screen, 6 lines after hitting enter, shutdown after ControlAltDel)

(Note that also the above new procedure works well

on RedHat6.2/OldPC instead)

 

Vito Di Blas

 

e-mail: vitodiblas@iol.it