On Wed, 2008-06-04 at 22:27 +0100, Dave Cross wrote: > As mentioned in a couple of previous mails to this list, trying to > upgrade my laptop[1] from F8 to F9 has gone horribly wrong. I'd really > appreciate any help to fix this. > > I basically have two problems. > > 1/ I can't use any of the Fedora boot media. When I boot with the > installation DVD I get to the "press enter to install or upgrade > Fedora" screen, but the keyboard is disabled so I can't press enter. > I've also tried with the Live CD and the rescue disk, but neither of > those work either. I've also created a boot USB key, but the BIOS on > this system doesn't support booting like that. This is a problem I've > hard with Fedora installation media right back to F7. For the last few > upgrades I've used "yum upgrade". > > 2/ I then tried to use preupgrade. It all seemed to go ok until the > end, when I got an error about a missing kernel. On rebooting, grub > only shows me Windows and the preupgrade options (no standard Linux). > The preupgrade option doesn't work (errors about missing files). > Booting into Windows and using Explore2FS shows that a lot (if not > all) of the kernel rpm seems to be missing. > > > So that's the current situation. Most of F9 seems to be installed, but > I can't boot it. I think it would work if I could boot the rescue disk > and force an installation of the kernel rpm. But I can't boot the > rescue disk. > > I've run out of ideas. I really want Fedora on this laptop, but I > can't think of a way to do it. Any advice that anyone can give me > would be much appreciated. > > If anyone can give me information that allows me to get F9 installed > on this laptop then I've got $100 that I'd like to donate to your > favourite open source project or charity. ---- can you boot the F9 DVD with an external USB keyboard? Craig -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
