[Mageia-dev] Fresh mga2 install - NO screen !

[Frank Griffin]

On 08/30/2012 07:45 AM, Remco Rijnders wrote:
>
> Courtesy of wobo, this is what we used last weekend:
>
> - Add "init 3" to the boot parameters, this should take you to text 
> only login.
>
> - Run XFDrake to see what driver you are using and possibly adjust it 
> if needed.
>
That will work fine, if you're lucky enough to have a driver/card that 
works in text mode without firmware.   Unfortunately, the older ATI ones 
don't.