Tim wrote:
On Sat, 2008-02-16 at 16:05 -0500, Bill Davidsen wrote:
When I boot from a Live-CD of FC[678] with GNOME or KDE, the boot
proceeds until the login prompt appears, then the keys and mouse
buttons stop working, but the touchpad still moves the mouse. At that
point there's no easy way to get debug information, and I'd rather try
some boot parameters first if someone has a thought on what this might
be.
While the live discs can be a useful test of compatibility, I've found
every one of them to be painful, and screw up badly (lock ups, dead slow
running, crashes), whereas the normal install of an OS worked fine.
They test whether the live disc works, they don't test whether the OS
will work normally.
Since the NIC on this machine is only 100Mbit the backup time would be
rather more than I like, but I am going to try the rescue CD, just to
see if it has a different behavior.
--
Bill Davidsen <davidsen@xxxxxxx>
"We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from
the machinations of the wicked." - from Slashdot
