F20 installation of Lenovo laptop crashes and kernel paramters

Robert Moskowitz rgm at htt-consult.com
Mon Jan 6 13:04:40 UTC 2014


On 01/06/2014 04:59 AM, David Shwatrz wrote:
> Hi,
> F20 installation of Lenovo laptop crashes again and again

What model do you have?  See 
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1006304

If it dies at the bootloader installation, it is probably the same NVRAM 
problem I am fighting with.  I did get i386 installed.  I am looking at 
turning off UEFI support to get x86_64 installed.

> (reboot in the middle of installation settings stage);
> I remember that in the past, with previous Fedora versions, when I had
> a crash in installation (not on this laptop) I had set these kernel
> parameters of the Linux text based installation:
> nousb noapic noacpi
>
> and it avoided the crash and the installation succeeded.
>
> I did not try this yet with the laptop, but beforehand my question is:
>   apart from these kernel parameters, is there another parameter which
> you suggest to add to provide better chances of success in
> installation ?
>
> regards,
> DavidS



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