F20 installation of Lenovo laptop crashes and kernel paramters

[David Shwatrz]

Hi,
It is Lenovo N500. Fedora 18 x86_64 was previously installed on it
with no problem.
It does not reach the bootloader installation, which is at the end.
This laptop model does not have UEFI support. Is there some kernel
parameter for installation which tells it not to try UEFI stuff when
installing ?

regards,
DavidS

On Mon, Jan 6, 2014 at 3:04 PM, Robert Moskowitz <rgm at htt-consult.com> wrote:
>
> 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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