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94 Appendix D:Troubleshooting Your Installation of Red Hat Linux
Figure D–1 Mouse Not Detected
For an overview of text mode installation instructions, please refer to Chapter 4, Installing Red Hat
Linux via Text Mode.
D.2.2 Problems with Booting into the Graphical Installation
The Red Hat Linux installation program uses frame buffers by default. However, there are some video
cards that will not work with this setting. The end result will be a problem booting into the graphical
installation program.
The installation program will first try to run in frame buffer mode. If that fails, it will try to run in a
lower resolution mode. If that still fails, the installation program will run in text mode.
Video cards that will not run at 800 x 600 resolution should type lowres at the boot: prompt to
run the installation program in 640 x 480 resolution.
If this still does not work, you can run the installation program without frame buffers by typing nofb
at the boot: prompt.
D.3 Trouble During the Installation
D.3.1 Partition Creation Problems
If you are having trouble creating a partition (for example, a root (/) partition), make sure you are
setting its partition type to Linux Native.