laptop install - screen gets white

Sat Oct 4 14:24:15 UTC 2003

On Sat, Oct 04, 2003 at 08:54:07AM +0200, Rainer Hattenhauer wrote:
> 
> since RH 9, I have the following problem when booting from installation CD 1
> and trying to perform an install on my laptop:
> 
> After media check, when launching the anaconda installer, the screen of my
> laptop is getting slowly white and remains in this state.

It would be interesting to know what will happen if you will try
to add 'nofb' to your boot options.  Than means that most likely
at a boot prompt you have to type "linux nofb".

> Software: now using fedora test2

I know that in RH9 this option is not documented but exists and it
has an effect (see bug #89722).  No idea what is a status of it in
test2.

   Michal