Have a student with a Toshiba Satellite L305 and tried to install Fedora 20 and 21 by using both DVD and Flash. In both cases it would come up with the grub screen, but both the regular install and the basic video would result in strange graphics and no response??
I use a fail-safe option with my disk imaging project, so tried adding its options to the boot line.
noapic noacpi pnpbios=off acpi=off pci=noacpi
Installation went thru just fine, and machine is working fine.
In checking the grub.cfg file on the system, it only included these two options.
pci=noacpi acpi=off
Don't know how common this issue might be, but perhaps Fedora should add a fail-safe option to the installations, so that if the regular ones don't work, they could at least try this one.
Don't know why this caused the installation to fail, but it seems to be a simple fix.
Not sure if the people that could change this are on the list, or where I could report this?
Try to get students to check out Linux, and have an install fail for a reason like this would probable stop a lot of users from continuing.
Thanks.
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