Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 138826
booting from DVD or other install media hangs
Last modified: 2007-11-30 17:10:54 EST
Description of problem: I have an ordinary Acer TravelMate 292LMI which did fine for RH9, FC1 and FC2. Now, booting from DVD, recue dist or other CDs does fail in any mode: noprobe, text, rescue, askmwthod etc. I can see the first screen where one can choose an install method, then it is booting the kernel and the last thing to be seen is "running /sbin/loader". After this the screen is black und nothing happens. There is no other console. The DVD, CDs of course pass the "mediacheck" (on another machine). How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Put in install media 2. boot from it with whatever option 3. wait for the black notebook screen Actual Results: black notebook screen and nothing more Expected Results: install procedure for FC3
I managed to install FC3, but this is not the cleanest way: 1. install on the notebook FC2 minimal 2. install apt package 3. change apt configuration to point at FC3 4. apt-get dist-upgrade 5. apt-get install system-config-packages 6. install (if needed) packages for running Xorg 7. insert FC3-DVD and start system-config-packages and install whatever you like
Does booting with 'linux nofb' help?
Oh yes ... Frame Buffer! Jeremy, you're a Tsaddik. I should more sleep than hack! Sorry for bothering at all!