FC7 on my lappy, F8 dvd in drive, fresh powerup

Sam Varshavchik mrsam at courier-mta.com
Fri Nov 30 01:52:06 UTC 2007


Gene Heskett writes:

> HP-dv5120us, amd turion 64 bit cpu, gig of ram, 100 GB drive. 
> It gets to the bit about skipping the media test (it already passed that 
> several times previously on this dvd)
> 
> then I get a blue screen with the prompts across the bottom, and a
> 
> "Welcome to Fedora for 386"
> 
> across the top, and it sits there.  And it does this regardless of the mode I 
> choose to do the install/upgrade.
> 
> Whats Next?

Well, try booting with "nohz=off noapic". That worked for me on one cranky 
laptop.

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