albester 0 Posted November 19, 2004 I wanted to try installing Fedora 3 on my laptop, so I downloaded the DVD. I have a compaq armada m300 with 196 mb ram and p3 600 cpu. Not a hell of a powerfull pc, but i wanted to try even so. It boots fine from the dvd, and i get the usual hit enter to start the graphical installer, or write linux text to install using text mode.. first i try just to hit enter... then this happens It probes for hardware, then the whole screen turns white, gradually... taking lets say 5 sec.. when it had become white, it gradually turns black.. and the pc seems to hang. First i thought it might be X that had some buggy drivers loading during the installer load. but the same thing happens when I try linux text as well. any idea what causes this? regards NH Share this post Link to post
adamvjackson 0 Posted November 19, 2004 Have you either verified the media thru MD5 hash on the DVD iso or running linux media check at the boot prompt? Share this post Link to post
albester 0 Posted November 19, 2004 Yes, it works fine. The same thing happened with Fedora 2 when I tried that when it was released. So I gave it up Share this post Link to post
clutch 1 Posted November 20, 2004 Is there an option to disable ACPI during boot (like "noacpi")? I know that would seem lame for a laptop, but if it doesn't support ACPI properly then you might get away with simple APM. Share this post Link to post
souldreamer 0 Posted November 20, 2004 I had the same problem with FC3 and a similar one with MDK 10.1. Do like clutch said. Boot like this: "linux noapic" (without quotes) Share this post Link to post
albester 0 Posted November 21, 2004 I got it working now. Used linux nofb, and it worked like a dream. Share this post Link to post