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If for some reason you need to disable the graphical boot screen, you can do so by editing the lilo.conf file and then rerunning LILO.
To do this, comment out (or delete) the line which reads message=/boot/message in the lilo.conf file. Once you have done this, rerun LILO. The next time you boot, you will see the text LILO: prompt, as is seen in previous Red Hat Linux releases.
You may also re-enable the graphical boot screen by adding the above line back into the lilo.conf file and rerunning LILO.
If you performed a server installation and you are having trouble getting X to start it is because the X Window System is not installed during a server-class installation.
You can have the X Window System interface running with a server class installation by selecting to do an upgrade after the install. During the upgrade, select the X Window System packages, and choose GNOME or KDE (or both).
If you did not create a user account during the installation you will need to log in as root and use the password you assigned to root.
If you cannot remember your root password, you will need to boot your system as linux single at the LILO boot: prompt. Then at the # prompt, you will need to type passwd root, which will allow you to enter in a new password for root. At this point you can type shutdown -r now and the system will reboot with your new password.
If you cannot remember you user account password, you must become root, then, type passwd <username>. This allows you to enter a new password for the specified user account.
If you selected either the custom- or workstation-class installation and do not find the graphical login screen, check your hardware for compatibility issues. The hardware compatibility list can be found at http://www.redhat.com/support.