Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > i am having some of the strangest behaviour on my collection of > gateway mx7120 laptops. since they're 64-bit amd athlon mobile > processors, i should theoretically be able to install either of 32- or > 64-bit f11 alpha on them, no? > > however, over yesterday and today, i've found at least three of them > that will, under no circumstances, even *look* at the i386 version of > the install DVD and will boot to the hard drive, but will happily > install off the x86_64 version. i take that i386 install DVD, put in > what should be an identical laptop next to it, and it will install off > of it just fine. i put it back in the original laptop, it's ignored. > what the heck? and i now have at least three laptops that seem > utterly uninterested in the i386 f11alpha DVD. Can the errant machines read/mount the DVDs? I had (otherwise identical) machines where some would read a CD while others didn't recongnize it. Haven't seen such with DVDs (or with CDs for quite some time), but... -- Dr. Horst H. von Brand User #22616 counter.li.org Departamento de Informatica Fono: +56 32 2654431 Universidad Tecnica Federico Santa Maria +56 32 2654239 Casilla 110-V, Valparaiso, Chile 2340000 Fax: +56 32 2797513 -- fedora-test-list mailing list fedora-test-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-test-list
