problems in installing Fedora 19

[Richard Vickery]

On Sat, Sep 7, 2013 at 3:40 AM, Walter Cazzola <cazzola at dico.unimi.it> wrote:
> Dear Fedora experts,
> I was going to  install the new Fedora 19 on a old desktop computer but
> it hangs after "starting Live Fedora" message. I have tried both x64 and
> x32 version without any luck.
>
> My computer is an Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU E8200 @ 2.66GHz with 2
> cores and probably 64bit. 4Gb of RAM and 1Tb of disk. The graphic card
> is a nVidia GeForce 9600 GT
>
> Right now the pc is running a old mandriva installation so the hw was
> supported at that time.
>
> Any suggestion?
>
> Many thanks in advance.
>
> Walter
>


Perhaps the answer is just to wait it out and let it boot up. This has
been my personal solution for my box quite a few times - and sometimes
it's annoying - but it works, and it doesn't hang at all after initial
boot into the new kernel.

Hope this helps,