[CentOS] FIXED - Re: first boot hung

Wed Dec 5 16:58:20 UTC 2012
Robert Moskowitz <rgm at htt-consult.com>

On 12/05/2012 01:24 AM, Frank Cox wrote:
> On Wed, 05 Dec 2012 01:14:06 -0500
> Robert Moskowitz wrote:
>
>> On 12/05/2012 01:03 AM, Frank Cox wrote:
>>> On Tue, 04 Dec 2012 20:27:03 -0500
>>> Robert Moskowitz wrote:
>>>
>>>> (EE) Try appending "nomodest" to your boot options
>> How exactly do I do this?
> Either type e at the grub screen and enter nomodeset, or
> edit /boot/grub/grub.conf and add nomodeset to that.

This did not work either. So I did a reinstall and selected the Desktop 
option then added the servers I wanted. The video came up just fine. 
Obviously I was not selecting all the necessary things to install going 
the other way.

thanks.