Weirdness with Fedora/XP upgrade
Beartooth Sciurivore
beartooth at swva.net
Fri May 23 20:01:59 UTC 2008
I had downloaded and burned another DVD, which I thought I would
try. I put it into a machine which dual-boots, either to one hard drive
with F8 or rarely to the other, which has XP.
I ran the test on the disk, and all seemed well. The install
began, and then suddenly the whole screen went white, and stayed that
way. When at last I tried to goose it, it wouldn't react to anything, not
even the power switch held down. I finally pulled the plug.
It still boots to XP all right. It offers to boot to F8, the
default, but I didn't check that; maybe I should.
So I put in the DVD from which I had successfully gotten F9 onto
three machines, and told XP to reboot.
It has done the same thing -- gone through the first few steps,
only to sit there with a blank white screen.
The monitor is new, a HP w2207h 1680x1050; but the other two PCs
manage with it, both behind a KVM switch and directly connected. And the
dual-boot machine is much the newest!
What could be doing this, and how do I fix it??
--
Beartooth Staffwright, Not Quite Clueless Power User
C5; D4; F8; P3; U7.10; Alpine 1.10, Pan 0.132; Privoxy 3
Remember I know little (precious little!) of where up is.
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