Preup to F12, won't boot

[Gianluca Cecchi]

On  Thu, 19 Nov 2009 13:51:05 -0500  Oliver Ruebenacker wrote:
>  If I edit away the "quiet" argument before booting, I see a few
> lines instead. The last of those few lines are (hand-copied, may
> contain typos):
>
> fb0: nouveaufb frame buffer device

You ran preupgrade, and then reboot, but the actual upgrade phase has
not happened yet, correct?
Try to modify f12 upgrade kernel command line also adding at the end
something like

xdriver=vesa nomodeset


and see if it goes better...

HIH,
Gianluca