Is possibly the boot manager not correctly installed? Do you get any boot screen with kernel-name? Otherwise, try to boot from your recovery/installation CD, go into recover and set up your boot manager. suomi On 2011-06-13 19:26, Navdeep Singh Sidhu wrote: > I hv got a problem. I have purchased a dell studio laptop with these config. > i7 processor 2.2 GHZ boost up to 3.3 > 8 GB ram > 2 GB nvidia 540m graphics card > Intel hd graphics card > 750 GB hardisk. > > so the main problem is when i boot fedora 15 it doesn't show any screen. > i have installed it on my portable seagate 500 GB hardisk. previously i > had used fedora 14 and fedora 13. they all boot well and worked fine. > but fedora 15 don't show any screen after booting on my system. But on > my brothers laptop it works fine. May be it is a GNOME3 doesn't have > support of my graphics card or anything else. Can somebody help me? > Please..... > > > I have installed on my system via live usb but not on my laptop, by > using another laptop. First I created a live usb of Fedora 15 using > Unetbootin. then i tried to boot from it on my laptop. But shows an error > > > - Dropping to debug shell. > > sh: can't access tty: job control turned off > > dracut:/# > > > > as i had told you earlier. then i tried to boot the live usb on another > laptop that is HP pavilion dv 2700 with > -Intel Core 2 duo processor 1.8GHz > -2gb ram > -256Mb nividia geforce 8600 m graphics card. > -160 gb hardisk > > fedora 15 live usb boots well on that system without any error and > GNOME3 also supports it's hardware. > then i attached my portable hardisk to that system and started the > installation process. During the installation process i formatted my > fedora 14 partition & install fedora 15 to it. Then i installed another > Linux distro backtrack5 to my portable hardisk on another partition by > replacing Ubuntu 10.10. Both these distro works fine on HP laptop but > not on my dell. fedora 15 doesn't show any screen after booting but > Backtrack5 works correctly. there is no problem with GRUB or any > installation. I think it doesn't support my laptop's hardware. > I had also tried to boot at run level 1, but it gives some Intel Mux > call failed error with > > - Dropping to debug shell. > sh: can't access tty: job control turned off > dracut:/# > > thanks for help, I had tried to boot fedora 15 at run level 1,3,5. But > no one seems to work for me. > > Please somebody help me i want to experience Fedora 15 on my laptop? > > Regards > Navdeep Singh > -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines