2010/11/3 M A Young <m.a.yo...@durham.ac.uk> > On Wed, 3 Nov 2010, Colin Paul Adams wrote: > > > The initial installation menu comes up ok. I select the default option > > (install or upgrade). A lot of messages flash by (about two screens > > worth), and then i see something like: > > > > running /sbin/loader > > check hardware > > waiting for hardware > > > > then it clears the screen, and the DVD drive runs for several minutes > > before eventually stopping. I never see anything else except the blank > > screen. > > I had the blank screen problem when trying to upgarde , and ended up > feeding the boot line various options like nofb nomodeset and text though > I don't know how much help they were. It worked some of the time, possibly > not related to the options I was trying (I had a few attempts due to other > reasons), and I did eventually get the upgrade to work but it might have > been luck. > > It might be worth starting with > > http://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/Fedora/14/html/Installation_Guide/ch09s02.html > which I was trying to follow but I was doing it from memory and I think > with hindsight I was scrambling some of the options. > > Michael Young > -- > users mailing list > users@lists.fedoraproject.org > To unsubscribe or change subscription options: > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users > Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines >
Try with the LiveCD's :) -- <-Manuel Escudero-> Linux User #509052 @GWave: jmlev...@googlewave.com @Blogger: http://www.blogxenode.tk/ (Xenode Systems Blog) PGP/GnuPG: DAE3 82E9 D68E 7AE4 ED31 1F8F 4AF4 D00C 50E7 ABC6
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