F12 Beta Live-CD Fail [1]

Fri Oct 23 04:53:36 UTC 2009

On Thu, 2009-10-22 at 20:33 -0700, john wendel wrote:
> I just tried the F12 beta live cd, 686, gnome on a really old Dell PIII, 
> 512 MB, Nvidia TNT2 PCI video and got a panic. The splash screen works 
> and then the screen goes blank and the keyboard lights wink.
> 
> I'd like to bugzilla, but I'm not sure how to gather any useful info. 
> I'll be happy to follow any instructions, but I'm not sure how to proceed.

Try booting to text mode; edit the kernel command line, remove 'rhgb
quiet', and add '3' (just the number 3). then let it boot and see what
happens.

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