Installing Fedora 8 on Intel Core Duo
Patrick O'Callaghan
pocallaghan at gmail.com
Sat Mar 22 16:41:45 UTC 2008
On Sat, 2008-03-22 at 15:36 +0000, Giulio Troccoli wrote:
> I have just bought a new PC which I am going to use as a server. I have
> been using Fedora Core 5 on the old one for about 5 years and I was very
> happy with it. I am also using Fedora 8 on my laptop and I'm very happy
> with it.
>
> The installation goes very well, I've got all the screens and I choose
> what to install and what not. Mind you, at this point the server is NOT
> yet connected to the router (if that makes a different). After the
> installation has finished it ask to reboot, to which of course I say
> yes. But the boot hangs, or so it seems.
>
> I've got the text output up to the point when it says "Starting udev".
> with one error maybe. The message "dmi_save_oem_string_devices: out of
> memory" appears. Then the screen goes black (and actually the monitor's
> light goes yellow, like there wasn't any signal). Nothing seems to bring
> it back to live.
>
> I've read that maybe I should use Fedora 7 instead of 8. As I said I
> have been using Fedora 8 on my laptop for some time with no trouble at
> all. But then again, it's a Pentium Centrino not a Dual Core.
I'm using a Core Duo on F8 with no problems. Sounds like a hardware or
BIOS problem with your new machine. Try running a Live CD (Fedora,
Ubuntu, Knoppix ...) and see what happens.
poc
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