On Thu, 26 Jan 2012 17:24:29 +0000 Ole Skartveit <ole.skartveit@xxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > > > > > > I have downloaded several flavours of Fedora 16 and burned DVD/CDs. When I try to boot from the CD/DVD on my Dell Latitude D620 I get the first caracter based message that it will start Fedora in xx seconds. Then the text dissapears and after a while two lines with some kind of bars pops up, and that is all. > > If I put the same CD/DVD into another PC (a desktop) it boots up from the CD/DVD and all works as expected. > > Is the Dell D620 laptop not supported for Fedora? I would appreciate any help. > > Regards > Ole > A look at the Common Bugs page for F16 might help. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Common_F16_bugs I would suggest reading this, there is one possible entry that might help you which mentions using nomodeset as a kernel argument on boot (you can modify the kernel command line during the boot process) and then selecting a text mode installation. I don't know what graphics hardware the D620 has, but it may be that it needs some setup that the installer can't do but a full installation will be able to. HTH -- Brian Morrison "I am not young enough to know everything" Oscar Wilde _______________________________________________ laptop mailing list laptop@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/laptop
