Problem upgrading to fc5 on an acer travelmate 290 laptop

Paul Howarth paul at city-fan.org
Mon Apr 10 13:25:00 UTC 2006


Alastair Irving wrote:
> Hello
>  
> I have currently got fc4 and windows xp working successfully on my acer
> travelmate 290 laptop, but want to upgrade to fc5.  However, when I boot
> from the cd, it says that there's an unknown option in config file, and
> then when I press enter to launch the installer, it says "Cannot find
> kernel image: linux".
>  
> Has anyone come across this error before, and if so, what do I do about
> it?  I had no such problems when installing fc4.  

Looks like one of the bugs listed here:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Bugs/FC5Common

See:
http://bugzilla.redhat.com/178143

Paul.




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