Trying to get Fedora working in Parallels

[mrochester]

I'm trying to get Fedorar 7 working in Parallels. The OS installs just fine, but won't boot. When it tries to boot, the screen resolution flickers between high and low a few times (screen completely blank with a cross shaped cursor) then eventually comes up saying...

"The display server has been shut down about 6 times in the last 90 seconds. It is likely that something bad is going on. Waiting for 2 minutes before trying again on display :0".

If I press OK, it goes back to a black screen with the cross shaped cursor again, and just remains there.

How do I get this working?

Thanks,

Michael.

 

[fumbles]

Somethings screwy with your Xorg...

Hit Ctrl-Alt-F1 to get to a command prompt.

In VPC you couldn't display 24bit graphics, first thing you had to do is to change it to 16. Although this doesn't sound like this problem.

# dmesg | tail

See if anything in there looks dodgy, or alterntively:

# cat /var/log/xorg.log