Rawhide snapshot installation woes

Rahul Sundaram sundaram at fedoraproject.org
Sat Apr 5 22:26:31 UTC 2008


Fulko Hew wrote:
> Here's my (poor) experience with 
> Rawhide-20080404-Snapshot-i686-Live-KDE.torrent.
> installation on a Dell Inspiron 6400 (aka 1505) laptop, with Intel video.
> 
> After installation to disk and rebooting, all I get is the 'blue screen' 
> with X cursor.
> Either booting in text mode or by viewing the boot progress, I see the 
> following:
> 
> S99firstboot line 44: FILENAME: command not found
> S99firstboot line 44: [: missing `]'
> S99firstboot line 44: FILENAME: command not found
> 
> and then it just hangs... no GUI login, no text login.

Either boot into run level 3 or press I for interactive startup and skip 
first boot. You can then do a update which fixes this problem. First 
boot will start the next time you reboot after that.

Rahul




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