Installing and Setting Up Fedora*
Getting Started Guide
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Note:
If the system does not begin rebooting within 60 seconds, power cycle the board or press the
reset button on the board and continue.
Due to compatibility issues between the video card supplied by Intel
®
and some recent
Linux* distributions, the operating system may not load correctly. If this is the case, see
for more options.
After the reboot, some normal system setup is required, such as creating user account(s)
and setting the time and date. Note that a user account is required to boot into the Fedora*
GUI. When asked, follow the prompt by clicking the Forward button.
When the installation completes, continue with the next section.
7.3.1
Working Around Linux* Boot Errors
Due to compatibility issues between the video card supplied by Intel
®
and some recent Linux*
distributions, the operating system may not load correctly.
To work around this:
Interrupt the Linux* boot by pressing
e
at the
grub
menu.
Use the down arrow key to move to the line starting with
linux
.
Add the option
3
to the end of the line, separated by a space from any other options.
Press F10 to resume booting.
Depending on your use case and install details, select one of the following subsections to
complete:
•
Booting to Text Mode Permanently
•
Adding Support for The Graphical Desktop
•
Repairing the Monitor Configuration File
7.3.1.1
Booting to Text Mode Permanently
Update the
/etc/default/grub
file to add the
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX
option
3
. This can
be added between
rhgb
and
quiet
, offset by spaces.
Save the changes to the file and execute the following command to generate the grub
configuration file:
# grub2-mkconfig -o /boot/grub2/grub.cfg
Reboot the system.
# shutdown -r now
7.3.1.2
Adding Support for the Graphical Desktop
If you installed Linux* via the text-based install, you did not install support for the graphical
desktop. This section gives the steps necessary to add this support.
Note:
Many other packages will not have installed correctly if you did a text-based install. In most
cases, the missing command support can be added with the following:
# yum -y install <command_name>
Update the yum configuration files as described in
, if necessary.
