On Tue, Dec 2, 2008 at 4:53 PM, Antonio Olivares <olivares14031@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > --- On Tue, 12/2/08, Dave Burns <tburns@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> I'm trying to boot the old fc9 live CD on a Dell >> Optiplex 755. It gets >> to the point where X is supposed to start and the screen >> goes wonky, >> apparently crashes. I tried various boot options, e.g. > Try acpi=off, noacpi, ..., etc. There would have to be more in the Fedora LiveCD documentation Maybe I am not looking in the right place. There are kernel options and install options, but .... I boot the liveCD, hit space, get a menu (boot, check memory, boot from disk, one other I forgot?). Tab makes it open the option line for editing and I put stuff at the end. I've tried resolution=640x480 linux resolution=640x480 text linux text acpi=off noacpi Maybe some others. I suspect this is the wrong place. If I have it show details, it gets to where cups starts and the screen goes black like X is starting, then the old screen come back a little goofy looking and the mouse has stopped moving. f1 won't go to console. > >> fc8 and previous had problems with SATA drives on this >> model Dell, >> could that be it? > It is a possibility, do other livecd's boot this machine in question, ie., Knoppix, Slax, Ubuntu Live, etc?, just to compare. Knoppix boots fine. >> Can I run the live cd in text mode? > Sure you can, I just don't remember from the top of my head, maybe put a "3" at the end of the parameters? I tried adding 'linux text' to the end of the boot options, it still crashes the same. Putting 3 at the end worked. Even better - if I remove rhgb from the default boot options line (redhat graphical boot) it gets through the boot process and starts X and everything is fine. That's weird. So then I used it to install fc9 on the hard drive. I rebooted and went through the firstboot stuff, hit finish, and then it crashed in the same weird graphics way. can't excape into console with ctl-alt-f1. So I am guessing there's something wrong with the X config or I need the proprietary drivers. I'm going to go ahead and boot into text mode and do my post-install stuff and then try to figure out the X problem, will post about it later. mahalo, Dave -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
