Hope this does not duplicate to the same place, but I sent the following message to a different input. Here it is:
I have tried 4 or 5 times to install Centos 7,* and it seems to install, but it won't boot to KDE or any desktop. It comes up in text mode, and nothing I do will get it into a kde mode.
Or any graphic mode, that I know of. I have enabled a root password, and a user password. I am trying to install on a SSD of 250 GB. The installation appears to work, but it
boots to black screen with white letters. It appears to accept some BASH commands, but it does not respond to startx or startkde. It appears to respond to su, but that doesn't
help. (Or sudo, either, but I'm used to su.) I have tried to clear the SSD completely so there are no partitions on it, not even the Windows 1GB boot partition. (I had that, but Centos
didn't work so I eliminated it.)
* I downloaded a number of tries and burned each to DVD, (one appeared to be defective) but none of them worked. It would help, perhaps, if the downloads included a verification.
I really want an RPM system with kde, and I used PCLOS for years, but the latest version is a great disappointment, and the last upgrade crashed the machine, which is why I,
having tried their April release, I am coming to CentOS--or trying to.
I don't know what information I can provide, but the bare-bones of the system are this:
MOBO: Foxxconn G41MXE/G41MXS-K BIOS: American Megatrends id:0 version 080015, date 10/14/210
CPU: Intel Cor2Duo E8600 @ 3.33GHz Width 64 bits Closck 333MHz
Memory 8Gib
Display: NVidia GF 116
All of this worked perfectly with PCLOS for many years. Please help!
Thanx--doug