F11B Non-Starter on ThinkPad T400

[Christopher A. Williams]

I'll try and circle back around to file bug reports on this later.

In the meantime, F11 Beta on my ThinkPad T400 will not only not install,
I can't get past what appears to be the first splash screen. This
ThinkPad comes with both Intel and ATI (Radeon HD3400) graphics.

I have tried both the Radeon Test Day and the standard X86_64 ISOs
booting them from a USB drive I created using the Live USB tool on F10.
It makes no difference if I use the Radeon chip (aka Discreete Graphics)
or the Intel chip (aka Integrated Graphics). In each case, F11 Beta
boots to a blank, white screen with no visible text.

I'm trying to figure out how to interrupt the boot sequence and pass a
kernel parameter to stop mode setting (nomodeset ???), but have been
unsuccessful so far because, since the screen is always blank, I have no
way of knowing what I'm looking at.

F10 runs just fine on this system. Ideas on how to get past this
appreciated.

Cheers,

Chris


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