Glad it worked for you!

Seems there may be a better solution.

I haven’t tried this yet but will do in a bit.

I don’t suppose you’ve been having regular problems with freezes with your VMs?

Cheers,
Jits

There is a much easier way to install the fix, however. When the screen hangs, hit CTRL-ALT-F2, and you’ll get a terminal screen. Sign in as root, make the suggested file change, and save it. Now do “shutdown -r now” to reboot the system. If you didn’t make any keystroke errors on the file, you should now see a GUI screen.

Hint: When keying in the config file, figure out what resolutions you most likely will need, and include them on the “Modes” line.

André

Fedora’s grub usually never shows, but you can get to it by pressing the up or down arrow keys (not the right nor left ones) when the VirtualBox boot splash appears. You make have to let virtualbox grab your mouse by clicking the window. You’ll know you have it when you see a blue menu with Fedora entries.

Anyhow, the first entry is usually the right one (Fedora …). Highlight it and press ‘e’ to edit. In the new menu highlight the middle one (kernel …) and press ‘e’. Add “3″ to the end of the line, with a space before it and no quotes. Press Enter. Then press ‘b’ to boot.

Once you have logged in, you can proceed with the changes outlined in the article.

There are many other options and commands for the grub menu, some of which are listed at the bottom of the it. Remember that whatever options you add or remove here are *temporary*. For permanent changes change grub.conf. Don’t know how? [Your favorite search engine here] is your friend.

You can also use nano or jed if you aren’t familar with vi. Under run level 3 you should have networking (wireless maybe not). Just use ‘yum install nano’.

Some other resolutions (depends on your desktop): 1020×600 1280×800

To the author: Thanks! I “lost” two to this. Any chance you can have a link so we can use wget or something else to download the file, rather than having to type it all out?

It’s very minimal by default. And I really mean minimal. The ISO is about 200mb, and only the bare essentials are installed.

It has a great package manager called pacman. If there isn’t a package for the software you want, you can easily make your own package from source, and use the package manager to install it. And, there is the Arch User Repository where you can post your package build and download other builds from other users. You can vote on packages and the best ones are eventually moved to an official repository.

Arch follows a rolling release model, so a simple “sudo pacman -Syu” refreshes the package lists and upgrades all available packages.

It also has a great forum, wiki, and IRC channel. Since the learning curve for Arch is relatively steep, it’s a pretty sophisticated community.

It’s worth a shot, at least.