<div dir="ltr">When you boot, at the prompt type "linux vesa" without the " " <div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Oct 3, 2008 at 11:56 AM, Tony Molloy <<a href="mailto:tony.molloy@ul.ie">tony.molloy@ul.ie</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><div class="Ih2E3d">On Friday 03 October 2008 09:11:36 Michael Magua wrote: > Probably due to the ATI graphics card, is it possible to specify vesa > driver as a boot option i.e "linux vesa". > > Alternatively do a text install, at the prompt use > > linux text > </div>As I said I tried the text based install and got the same problem. When I boot from the boot.iso image how do I tell it to use the vesa driver. If I press <tab> to edit the boot line then adding vesa doesn't work. As a workaround I'm doing a live CD install on the boxes and I can then install what I want on them later. Tony <div><div></div><div class="Wj3C7c"> > On Fri, Oct 3, 2008 at 8:14 AM, Tony Molloy <<a href="mailto:tony.molloy@ul.ie">tony.molloy@ul.ie</a>> wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I'm trying to install Fedora-9 on some Dell OptiPlex 620 boxes. I've > > tried both graphical and text based installs and get the same problem > > with both. When it tries to run anaconda it crashes with a long > > traceback. It's at the point where it is probeing for the video card the > > crash occurs. > > > > Does anybody have the magic incantation I can give to the boot sequence > > to get > > around this. > > > > > > Thanks, > > > > Tony > > > > -- > > fedora-list mailing list > > <a href="mailto:fedora-list@redhat.com">fedora-list@redhat.com</a> > > To unsubscribe: <a href="https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list" target="_blank">https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list</a> > > Guidelines: > > <a href="http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines" target="_blank">http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines</a> -- fedora-list mailing list <a href="mailto:fedora-list@redhat.com">fedora-list@redhat.com</a> To unsubscribe: <a href="https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list" target="_blank">https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list</a> Guidelines: <a href="http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines" target="_blank">http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines</a> </div></div></blockquote></div> -- Regards, Michael Magua RHCE 805008570430920 </div>