Can't install Fedora 14 on MacBook Air

Manuel Escudero Jmlevick at gmail.com
Thu Nov 4 05:31:05 UTC 2010


2010/11/3 M A Young <m.a.young at durham.ac.uk>

> On Wed, 3 Nov 2010, Colin Paul Adams wrote:
>
> > The initial installation menu comes up ok. I select the default option
> > (install or upgrade). A lot of messages flash by (about two screens
> > worth), and then i see something like:
> >
> > running /sbin/loader
> > check hardware
> > waiting for hardware
> >
> > then it clears the screen, and the DVD drive runs for several minutes
> > before eventually stopping. I never see anything else except the blank
> > screen.
>
> I had the blank screen problem when trying to upgarde , and ended up
> feeding the boot line various options like nofb nomodeset and text though
> I don't know how much help they were. It worked some of the time, possibly
> not related to the options I was trying (I had a few attempts due to other
> reasons), and I did eventually get the upgrade to work but it might have
> been luck.
>
> It might be worth starting with
>
> http://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/Fedora/14/html/Installation_Guide/ch09s02.html
> which I was trying to follow but I was doing it from memory and I think
> with hindsight I was scrambling some of the options.
>
>        Michael Young
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Try with the LiveCD's :)
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