[F14] Black screen during installation

sguazt marco.guazzone at gmail.com
Tue Nov 2 21:29:40 UTC 2010


On Tue, Nov 2, 2010 at 9:53 PM, mgt <cybershade at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hey,
>
> You can try with acpi=off option at boot. It helped me for the same problem
> even with another card.
>

Thanks!
It worked.

Best,

-- Marco

> Best,
>
> On Tue, Nov 2, 2010 at 10:41 PM, sguazt <marco.guazzone at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hello Community,
>>
>> I'm happily running F13 and now I've just tried to install the new
>> baby: Fedora 14.
>>
>> After booting from DVD and selected the first option "Install a new
>> system or upgrade an existing system", the vmlinuz start loading, till
>> the hardware detection.
>> After this, the screen becomes black, the DVD stops reading, and all is
>> idle.
>> I've tried several times, but I've got the same result.
>>
>> So, I've decided to try the option "Install system with basic video
>> card"...
>> ... and yes this time seems to work, because after the hardware
>> detection phase, the Media check textual window appears.
>>
>> My laptop is not so aged. It is a Dell Latitude D830 with an Intel
>> GMA500 video card.
>>
>> Anyway, having got this error, if I decide to finally install F14, may
>> I have problems with X?
>>
>> Thank you very much!
>>
>> Best,
>>
>> -- Marco
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> --
> mgt


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