F20 installation of Lenovo laptop crashes and kernel paramters

[Robert Moskowitz]

On 01/06/2014 09:26 AM, David Shwatrz wrote:
> 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 ?

It SHOULD install fine if it fines no UEFI suport.  You may have to file 
a bug report.  :(


Is it creating a /boot/efi partition?  Given no UEFI, I think it shouldn't.
>
> 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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