[CentOS] [Solved]: Initial Boot from 6.3 minimal halts with strange video display

Mon Jul 21 19:20:05 UTC 2014
m.roth at 5-cent.us <m.roth at 5-cent.us>

James B. Byrne wrote:
> On Mon, July 21, 2014 18:41:26 UTC, m.roth at 5-cent.us m.roth at
> 5-cent.us wrote:
>
>> 1. What video manufacturer? Nvidia? Ati?...?
>
> I have no idea.  But in opening the case to find out I realized that the
> video feed was attached to a PCI card - whose manufacturer escapes my
attempts
> to identify.  In any case, removing that card and attaching the monitor to
> the built-in video solved the problem.

AUGH! That was *not* what I meant. Can you get it up, at least in
singleuser mode? If so, lspci will probably tell you. Or lshw. Or
dmidecode... or, for that matter, it might tell you in dmesg or messages.

      mark