On 3/24/06, Robert L Cochran <cochranb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I just tried to install FC5 x86_64 using both DVD and an NFS image > install on my wife's Athlon 64 machine which is equipped with: > > Nvidia GeForce 6800 Ultra video card > Dell 2405FPW flat panel monitor (which includes a whole bunch of flash > card readers, USB and sound ports) > > When the DVD boots up the boot: screen image shows just fine. > typing 'linux mediacheck' or 'linux askmethod' at the boot: prompt also > works fine until anaconda tries to bring up X. > > The graphical X installer wouldn't come up at all. Text utilities such > as mediacheck work fine. > > This means I can't install in graphical mode at all. Have you tried a text install? linux text Note: you can install X and all things graphical from a text install. No, not ideal, but it may work (which is better than nothing). > I see from checking the postings that the problem is kernel-related and > a new kernel is expected. How do I get the install to work -- do it in > text mode and update to a newer kernel? Is there a way to get anaconda > to boot with a substitute kernel not on the installation CD? No, that is a different issue for post-install. It doesn't affect the open-source nv driver used by the installer, only the binary nvidia driver you might want after installing. There should be a kernel update which fixes this bug sometime soon. Jonathan
