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Fedora 7 in MS Virtual PC 2007 – Display problems at boot.
LockedI’m attempting to install Fedora as a virtual machine under MS Virtual PC 2007. I’ve tried both FC5 and the new F7, but I’m having similar display problems with both. I’m going to concentrate on the F7 problem, since I won’t care about FC5 if we can solve it.
On my first installation attempt I went with the GUI install. I let it check the downloaded .ISO and the image passed. The next displayed information was about anaconda starting. After that, the Virtual PC window went black. There was no apparent activity for over 30 minutes.
I reset the vm and started over, this time taking the text install option. This went smoothly and got as far as rebooting.
After the reboot, the window shows a distorted Fedora graphic across the middle third of the screen from side to side. This remains in place while the usual status updates scroll by on the top third of the window. The bottom third remains blank. Eventually I get to a text login prompt. After I respond to that, the password prompt is partially obscured by the distorted graphic in the middle. The system appears to accept my credentials, and I assume I get a command prompt, but I can’t see what’s going on behind the graphic. If I enter startx, the screen clears the previous command lines, but the distorted graphic remains.
The system is a new Dell Optiplex 745 running XP SP2. 4 gig of RAM, 80 gig HD, of which I gave the vm 20 gig. The video card is a new Radeon X1300 with 256 meg. I’m captured the F7 .ISO as a virtual DVD within the vm.
Any help would be appreciated.