On Wed, Jun 4, 2008 at 10:46 PM, Craig White <craigwhite@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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? Using an external USB keyboard makes no difference. The keyboard is still dead. Thanks for the suggestion tho'. Cheers, Dave... -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
