Installing nohz-off

Rodd Clarkson rodd at clarkson.id.au
Tue Mar 16 00:23:06 UTC 2010


On Mon, 2010-03-15 at 17:57 -0600, Lawrence E Graves wrote:
> On Mon, 2010-03-15 at 16:40 -0700, Brian C. Lane wrote:
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> > On 03/15/2010 03:23 PM, Lawrence E Graves wrote:
> > > On Mon, 2010-03-15 at 14:48 -0700, Adam Williamson wrote:
> > >> On Mon, 2010-03-15 at 15:37 -0600, Lawrence E Graves wrote:
> > >>
> > >>>> On Mon, 2010-03-15 at 15:20 -0600, Lawrence E Graves wrote:
> > >>>>> I am very new at trying to install alpha.  How and where do you install
> > >>>>> this command nohz=off in order to install Alpha 13.  
> > 
> > > Thanks for your help but I am not getting anywhere.  I believe I am a
> > > little to novice at this to get results and you have too much work to do
> > > to be worrying with me.  I'll just wait until Beta comes out.
> > 
> > When you boot the media you will see the Grub menu. It will say 'Welcome
> > to Fedora 13-Alpha' and have a list of options like 'Install a new
> > system ...'
> > 
> > Hit TAB
> > 
> > You will see a line with vmlinuz at the start. The cursor will be at the
> > end, hit space and type nohz=off
> > 
> > Hit Enter
> > 
> > The install should continue.
> > 
> > Good Luck!

> I did as you instructed and as I send this email, nothing.  I've
> downloaded and burned 2 new dvd and when my computer gets to bar along
> the bottom, the bar disappears and the screen remains blank.

If you've added the nohz=off to the boot paramaters (as described above)
and your getting the blue bar and then nothing, then this parameter
isn't likely to be the thing you need to add.

Why are you trying to add this parameter?


R.



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