Replacing the boot kernel in the installer

Josh Boyer jwboyer at gmail.com
Wed Jan 23 12:39:32 UTC 2008


On Wed, 23 Jan 2008 12:24:32 +0000
"Bill Crawford" <billcrawford1970 at gmail.com> wrote:

> I successfully installed F8 at home, but I've been unable to get the
> installer to run on my Aspire here at work. It fails due a problem
> with the sata_sis driver, which is fixed in the latest F7 kernel
> update so I assume the current F8 kernel is fine too. Is it possible
> to simply boot from a different kernel (and update the modules in the
> initrd, of course) and run the installer? Or, if I need to update the
> stage 2 image as well, how do I point at the updated stage 2, and can
> I do so while still proceeding to fetch the install packages off the
> network?

You could just try the Fedora Unity respins.

josh




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