F14 Alpha blank screen during install

[Zoltan Kota]

On Fri, Aug 27, 2010 at 12:46 AM, Adam Williamson <awilliam at redhat.com> wrote:
> 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?

No. I have tried again just now. Blank screen with basic video driver.

Zoltan