On Thu, Jun 5, 2008 at 9:56 PM, Beartooth <Beartooth@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Wed, 04 Jun 2008 22:27:00 +0100, Dave Cross wrote: > [...] >> So that's the current situation. Most of F9 seems to be installed, but I >> can't boot it. I think it would work if I could boot the rescue disk and >> force an installation of the kernel rpm. But I can't boot the rescue >> disk. >> >> I've run out of ideas. I really want Fedora on this laptop, but I can't >> think of a way to do it. Any advice that anyone can give me would be >> much appreciated. > > In the course of much trouble with installing F9 on one of my > machines, I found that it helped to use an external USB CD/DVD drive -- > but only if the drive was plugged directly into that machine, with no > hub, switch, nor anything else in between. Then, and only then (after I > also got the BIOS set up to see and boot from that drive), could I do it. Thanks for the suggestion. I don't have an external DVD drive. I'll have to see if I can borrow one from somewhere. Cheers, Dave... -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
