On Thu, 26 Jan 2012 17:24:29 +0000
Ole Skartveit <ole.skartveit(a)live.no> wrote:
I have downloaded several flavours of Fedora 16 and burned DVD/CDs. When I try to boot
from the CD/DVD on my Dell Latitude D620 I get the first caracter based message that it
will start Fedora in xx seconds. Then the text dissapears and after a while two lines with
some kind of bars pops up, and that is all.
If I put the same CD/DVD into another PC (a desktop) it boots up from the CD/DVD and all
works as expected.
Is the Dell D620 laptop not supported for Fedora? I would appreciate any help.
Regards
Ole
A look at the Common Bugs page for F16 might help.
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Common_F16_bugs
I would suggest reading this, there is one possible entry that might
help you which mentions using nomodeset as a kernel argument on boot
(you can modify the kernel command line during the boot process) and
then selecting a text mode installation.
I don't know what graphics hardware the D620 has, but it may be that it
needs some setup that the installer can't do but a full installation
will be able to.
HTH
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Brian Morrison
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