ACER 1681 upgrade issue

[Bill Davidsen]

Tim wrote:
> On Sat, 2008-02-16 at 16:05 -0500, Bill Davidsen wrote:
>> When I boot from a Live-CD of FC[678] with GNOME or KDE, the boot 
>> proceeds until the login prompt appears, then the keys and mouse
>> buttons stop working, but the touchpad still moves the mouse. At that
>> point there's no easy way to get debug information, and I'd rather try
>> some boot parameters first if someone has a thought on what this might
>> be.
> 
> While the live discs can be a useful test of compatibility, I've found
> every one of them to be painful, and screw up badly (lock ups, dead slow
> running, crashes), whereas the normal install of an OS worked fine.
> They test whether the live disc works, they don't test whether the OS
> will work normally.
> 
Since the NIC on this machine is only 100Mbit the backup time would be 
rather more than I like, but I am going to try the rescue CD, just to 
see if it has a different behavior.

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