Twenty bucks your machine is hyperthreading and you have disabled it. If you re-enable HT in your BIOS, see if it works. Similar issue right now with Mandrake 9.2 -Lox -----Original Message----- From: fedora-list-admin@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:fedora-list-admin@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Alessandro GARDICH Sent: Saturday, November 15, 2003 4:00 PM To: fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: CD don't start On Sat, 2003-11-15 at 20:15, Timothy Murphy wrote: > On Saturday 15 November 2003 16:33, Alessandro GARDICH wrote: > > > I have already a FC1 on my computer ... > > it came from a RH9 -> severn1 -> severn2 -> FCtest -> FC1, with all > > updates by network (up2date/yum) ... and some extra packages. > > I want to refresh it all upgrading or reinstalling FC1 from CD. > > > > I download all 3 ISO of FC1 and burned it, > > after boot from CDROM and hitted <enter> at prompt I see for few second > > the message of loading vmlinuz and initrd with some dots, then screen > > clean (all black) and on the top left there is only the blinking cursor, > > no more ... > > > > I try also 'linux nofb' at prompt but nothing change > > You could try "linux noprobe" or "linux text" or "linux noprobe text". > b already try with "text" : same result :( I'll try "noprobe" tomorrow morning, only thing I can suppose is something related with ACPI if FC1 boot with ACPI enabled. Maybe also i used "expert" in previous releases that do less autoprobe if i remember right, anyway tomorrow, hem today later (is 00:52 pm) i'll try and post the result. thanks -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list