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Old 12-04-2013
Display Screen Goes Black When Run startx

Have -
HP G4p DL360 SCSI version (*see below of pdf of server basics if needed)
Scientific Linux live-cd.iso

Issue -
When it boots off the LiveCD, all starts swell, but if I install the OS normal it goes to a black monitor....
If I install text only, it works and when done I am at the terminal view and login as root.....then if I execute startx, the screen goes black....if I make root create a user and then that user runs startx - same issue...black screen..

The same ISO (livecd.iso) boots to the GUI (gnome I think) when I run it on VMware Player...so the ISO is clean (I think...)

Googling this issue has returned too many confusing suggestions....so, what'ya think?

Thanks in advance for any suggestions.

ps - this server is for my home-unix/linux-learning-lab....so I'm not some network engineer if yer wondering what my ignorance is due to...I'm more of a analytics person fwiw....

*
http://h18000.www1.hp.com/products/q...a/12166_na.PDF
 

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mkcd(1M)						  System Administration Commands						  mkcd(1M)

NAME
mkcd - create bootable Solaris ISO image SYNOPSIS
/usr/bin/mkcd -v [-l label] media-root iso DESCRIPTION
The mkcd utility takes media-root (the root of an on-disk Solaris install media) as input and creates a bootable Solaris ISO image in the file iso, using mkisofs(8). The file can then be burned onto a CD/DVD with utilities such as cdrw(1) or cdrecord(1). (Neither mkisofs(8) nor cdrecord(1) are SunOS man pages.) Caution - The directory tree media-root must contain the file boot/grub/stage2_eltorito, which will be written to the media boot sectors. This file will be modified with some boot information, thus it must be writable. If necessary, first save a copy prior to running this utility. OPTIONS
The following options are supported: -l label Sets label as the label/volume name of the ISO image. -v Verbose. Multiple -v options increase verbosity. OPERANDS
The following operands are supported: media-root Top-level directory of an on-disk Solaris install media. iso Name of the output file which will contain the resulting ISO image. EXAMPLES
Example 1 Creating an ISO Image and Burning a CD/DVD The following commands create an ISO image from the content of s10u1 and burn the image to a CD/DVD. # /usr/bin/mkcd s10u1 s10u1.iso # /usr/bin/cdrw -i s10u1.iso ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes: +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ | ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ |Availability |SUNWcsu | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ |Interface Stability |Committed | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ SEE ALSO
cdrw(1), attributes(5) mkisofs(8), (/usr/share/man/man8/mkisofs.8), in the SUNWfsman package (not a SunOS man page) SunOS 5.11 25 Jul 2008 mkcd(1M)
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