Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 611262
Does booting the preupgrade boot image give me sufficient time to add boot parameters?
Last modified: 2010-12-03 08:31:59 EST
Could you verify, when the preupgrade image is booting, one is able to change the boot parameters for the boot image please. I don't remember having sufficient time to add the parameter, nomodeset, when the preupgrade boot image was booting. Without the nomodeset boot parameter, my monitor says "no signal" and I can't see what is happening from my monitor. The second time I tried to preupgrade, I added this parameter, manually, to the grub.conf file prior to telling preupgrade to reboot, so I could watch the preupgrade image do the upgrade. Other notes: I need to add nomodeset to the boot parameter for the FC13 live DVD and for the regular FC13 kernel to have a working monitor, i.e., to have my monitor not say "no signal". Adding nomodeset is not a preupgrade problem. Needing to add nomodeset seems to be a FC13 problem I have. Hopefully, I am wrong, and I did have sufficient time to add the nomodeset option during boot, and hopefully, I was just excited and confused because of the need to use the nomodeset option, but please check.
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