F20 installation of Lenovo laptop crashes and kernel paramters

Robert Moskowitz rgm at htt-consult.com
Mon Jan 6 15:35:24 UTC 2014


On 01/06/2014 10:21 AM, Suvayu Ali wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 06, 2014 at 04:26:52PM +0200, 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 ?
> Not an answer to your question; but is there any reason you want to
> install again, why not upgrade?  I would suggest upgrading via yum.

I tyipcally want to start clean, or pretty much clean with each ver, so 
I do a clean install to a new drive and copy things over.  Been doing 
this probably back to f7.



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