On Tue, 2008-05-13 at 23:34 +0200, Fluffy The Vampire wrote: > Hello, > > Today I decided to install Fedora 9 (64-bit) on my system. It wasn't a > good experience as it refused to work... Here's my story: > > 1) downloaded the 64bit ISO and burnt it to a dvd > 2) booted the dvd and the graphical installer never came up. X said it > detected my video card correctly (Nvidia Geforce 8800 GTS 360 MB) and > then all I got was a black screen. No response anymore, had to reboot. > 3) rebooted and chose text based install instead. This installed fine > with the default partioning Fedora suggested (expect swap - see below) > however after installing grub and rebooting grub just hung. I get a > black text screen that says GRUB and that's it. No more response whatsoever. > > So I had to reboot with my XP SP3 CD to do a fixmbr to get back to my pc. > > Here's my system: > > - Intel Core 2 Duo E6600 CPU @ 3.00 GHz > - 8 GB RAM (PC800) @ 333 Mhz bus speed (1:1) > - GA-965P-DS3P (rev. 2.0) motherboard with i965 chipset > - Western Digital 150GB 16MB SATA150 10000RPM Raptor (/dev/sda) => > Windows XP + /swap (5GB) > - Maxtor 300GB 16MB SATA150 7200RPM (/dev/sdb) => Fedora 9, /boot 200 MB > and / rest of the drive with LVM > - Western Digital 160GB-YS 16MB SATA300 HD (/dev/sdc) => Windows Vista > 64 bit Business > - Soundblaster X-Fi OEM (but I'm using on-board audio in Linux) > > Funny thing is that during install GRUB didn't recognise Vista and only > offered Fedora 9 and XP as possible OS's to boot. > > Oh and FC8 did work on it :/. > > Any ideas what could be causing this and how I should solve this? Is this an update to F9 or a fresh install?? Ric -- ================================================ My father, Victor Moore (Vic) used to say: "There are two Great Sins in the world... ..the Sin of Ignorance, and the Sin of Stupidity. Only the former may be overcome." R.I.P. Dad. Linux user# 44256 Sign up at: http://counter.li.org/ http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/oar http://www.wayward4now.net <---down4now too ================================================ -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
