F14 Alpha blank screen during install

[Adam Williamson]

On Fri, 2010-08-27 at 00:42 +0200, Zoltan Kota wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 26, 2010 at 8:14 PM, Adam Williamson <awilliam at redhat.com> wrote:
> > On Thu, 2010-08-26 at 09:11 -0400, Clyde E. Kunkel wrote:
> >> On 08/26/2010 09:00 AM, Zoltan Kota wrote:
> >> > Hi,
> >> >
> >> > I still was not able to install F14 Alpha with netinst.iso. Blank
> >> > screen after anaconda starts, as described in the F14 Common Bugs wiki
> >> > page. I have Ati Radeon 9200. As I remember it didn't work with basic
> >> > video drive either. I will try it again.
> >> > Is that problem still exist? A new bug was opened in bugzilla yesterday:
> >> > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=627133
> >> >
> >> > Can I somehow (help to) resolve the problem?
> >> >
> >> > Zoltan
> >>
> >> Specify nomodeset in the kernel cmd line.  Known problem and in bz.
> >
> > Zoltan's bug doesn't look like the widely-encountered one, I think his
> > Radeon is a bit too early to hit that. Zoltan, does booting the live CD
> > work?
> 
> OK, I could install Alpha in graphic mode after adding the nomodeset
> parameter at the boot screen.
> I also tested the live CD, it does boot.

Hmm, so that does sound like the known bug then. But using basic video
driver didn't work?
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