Forcing Fedora 9 Live CD to boot with VESA Video Driver

[Rick Bilonick]

On Sun, 2008-10-05 at 09:42 -0700, Antonio Olivares wrote:
> --- On Sun, 10/5/08, Rick Bilonick <rab at nauticom.net> wrote:
> 
> > From: Rick Bilonick <rab at nauticom.net>
> > Subject: Forcing Fedora 9 Live CD to boot with VESA Video Driver
> > To: "For users of Fedora Core releases" <fedora-list at redhat.com>
> > Date: Sunday, October 5, 2008, 9:39 AM
> > I've downloaded the latest F9 Live CD (not KDE version).
> > I'm trying to
> > use it with an HP2133 mini-notebook but the Chrome driver
> > still does not
> > work. Is there a way to force the Live CD to use the VESA
> > driver? (I'm
> > currently running F8 on the 2133.)
> > 
> > Rick B.
> > 
> > -- 
> 
> 
> Pass the vesa parameter to boot after pressing tab to try and check if it forces vesa driver.  
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Antonio 

Thanks. I included "xdriver=vesa" plus several other parameters in
various combinations, all to no avail. F9 installs (I can hear it play
some music/sounds) but I don't have any video. As I said, I'm running F8
with the vesa driver and it works fine. I have no idea why F9 is such a
pain to install.

Rick B.