Dear Fedora experts, I was going to install the new Fedora 19 on a old desktop computer but it hangs after "starting Live Fedora" message. I have tried both x64 and x32 version without any luck.
My computer is an Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU E8200 @ 2.66GHz with 2 cores and probably 64bit. 4Gb of RAM and 1Tb of disk. The graphic card is a nVidia GeForce 9600 GT
Right now the pc is running a old mandriva installation so the hw was supported at that time.
Any suggestion?
Many thanks in advance.
Walter
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On 09/07/2013 04:10 PM, Walter Cazzola wrote:
Dear Fedora experts, I was going to install the new Fedora 19 on a old desktop computer but it hangs after "starting Live Fedora" message. I have tried both x64 and x32 version without any luck.
My computer is an Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU E8200 @ 2.66GHz with 2 cores and probably 64bit. 4Gb of RAM and 1Tb of disk. The graphic card is a nVidia GeForce 9600 GT
Right now the pc is running a old mandriva installation so the hw was supported at that time.
Any suggestion?
Many thanks in advance.
Walter
Try using the vesa driver, and add the following as a kernel parameter for booting.
nomodeset
On 09/07/2013 03:40 AM, Walter Cazzola wrote:
Dear Fedora experts, I was going to install the new Fedora 19 on a old desktop computer but it hangs after "starting Live Fedora" message. I have tried both x64 and x32 version without any luck.
My computer is an Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU E8200 @ 2.66GHz with 2 cores and probably 64bit. 4Gb of RAM and 1Tb of disk. The graphic card is a nVidia GeForce 9600 GT
Right now the pc is running a old mandriva installation so the hw was supported at that time.
Any suggestion?
Many thanks in advance.
Walter
I'm running F19 on the exact same hardware configuration, so it does work. Sorry I can't help with the installation, mine installed without problems.
John
On Sat, 7 Sep 2013, Rejy M Cyriac wrote:
On 09/07/2013 04:10 PM, Walter Cazzola wrote:
Dear Fedora experts, I was going to install the new Fedora 19 on a old desktop computer but it hangs after "starting Live Fedora" message. I have tried both x64 and x32 version without any luck.
My computer is an Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU E8200 @ 2.66GHz with 2 cores and probably 64bit. 4Gb of RAM and 1Tb of disk. The graphic card is a nVidia GeForce 9600 GT
Right now the pc is running a old mandriva installation so the hw was supported at that time.
Any suggestion?
Many thanks in advance.
Walter
Try using the vesa driver, and add the following as a kernel parameter for booting.
nomodeset
I got installed disabling the apm and acpi. Thanks for the help.
Walter
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On Sat, 7 Sep 2013, John Wendel wrote:
On 09/07/2013 03:40 AM, Walter Cazzola wrote:
Dear Fedora experts, I was going to install the new Fedora 19 on a old desktop computer but it hangs after "starting Live Fedora" message. I have tried both x64 and x32 version without any luck.
My computer is an Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU E8200 @ 2.66GHz with 2 cores and probably 64bit. 4Gb of RAM and 1Tb of disk. The graphic card is a nVidia GeForce 9600 GT
Right now the pc is running a old mandriva installation so the hw was supported at that time.
Any suggestion?
I'm running F19 on the exact same hardware configuration, so it does work. Sorry I can't help with the installation, mine installed without problems.
thanks for the support, I've solved by disabling apm and acpi
Walter
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On Sat, Sep 7, 2013 at 3:40 AM, Walter Cazzola cazzola@dico.unimi.it wrote:
Dear Fedora experts, I was going to install the new Fedora 19 on a old desktop computer but it hangs after "starting Live Fedora" message. I have tried both x64 and x32 version without any luck.
My computer is an Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU E8200 @ 2.66GHz with 2 cores and probably 64bit. 4Gb of RAM and 1Tb of disk. The graphic card is a nVidia GeForce 9600 GT
Right now the pc is running a old mandriva installation so the hw was supported at that time.
Any suggestion?
Many thanks in advance.
Walter
Perhaps the answer is just to wait it out and let it boot up. This has been my personal solution for my box quite a few times - and sometimes it's annoying - but it works, and it doesn't hang at all after initial boot into the new kernel.
Hope this helps,