problems in installing Fedora 19

[Walter Cazzola]

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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[Rejy M Cyriac]

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

[Fedora] Re: problems in installing Fedora 19

[Walter Cazzola]

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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[John Wendel]

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

[Fedora] Re: problems in installing Fedora 19

[Walter Cazzola]

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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[Richard Vickery]

On Sat, Sep 7, 2013 at 3:40 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

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,