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
On 01/26/2012 12:24 PM, Ole Skartveit 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.
Can't say for F-16 but I used a D620 with the Intel video for just about every version of Fedora from 6 up to around 14 or so as my primary work laptop. The hardware was all pretty well supported...
-Chris
On Thu, 26 Jan 2012 17:24:29 +0000 Ole Skartveit ole.skartveit@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
I had a Dell notebook with a weird video card that even Windows didn't support! When it's windows crashed, and I tried to re-install it from the included CD, it wouldn't install (can't remember the symptoms). But fortunately, there was a Nvidia video card available for that model (got it off Ebay), and both Windows and Fedora would install with that card.
On 1/26/2012 12:24 PM, Ole Skartveit 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
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