F8RC3 Fails Miserably on HP 8510w Laptop
Neal Becker
ndbecker2 at gmail.com
Tue Nov 6 14:28:45 UTC 2007
Mogens Kjaer wrote:
> Christopher A. Williams wrote:
> ...
>> On the first boot post-install, X tries to start but fails. The screen
>> flashes for 1 second and then nothing. Eventually you get a default X
>> background (grey pattern) and a big X cursor.
>
> I've seen this behavior on a DC7700 HP desktop.
>
> After the installation, the machine hang during firstboot with
> a grey pattern and a big X cursor.
>
> The next installation was OK.
>
> The dmidecode of this machine is attached to:
>
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=251493
>
> (this is another bug, fixed).
>
> I can try 10 installs on Monday...
>
> Mogens
>
I think I saw this on hp dv9500. I did NOT reinstall, I just rebooted and
it was fine.
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