Boot-options, as screen goes black F17

[dilynux]

Hi,

I've been trying to boot and install from a live-CD of Fedora 17, on my laptop. The laptop is a HP g6-1150sd with an Radeon graphics-card. But after booting the live-CD, the screen goes black. Is there a boot-option I can give at start-up, so that I can eventually install from the live-CD? I've already tried vesa and linux=vesa but both to no avail.

Help would be greatly appreciated.

---------- Post added at 05:37 PM ---------- Previous post was at 05:05 PM ----------

I imagine, installing from a F17 installation DVD would give me the same problem. Right?

[smr54]

Does it give some information and then go black? If so, that's the changing over to framebuffer, which can be avoided by adding nomodeset (I think---that might have changed, but try that and see if it helps)

[george_toolan]

Try to remove rhgb and quiet from the command line options to see what's going on.

I imagine, installing from a F17 installation DVD would give me the same problem. Right?

Not necessarily since the DVD doesn't boot a live operation system.

[dilynux]

No it doesn't give any information. Right after the boot-screen from the CD, it goes black. Will try adding nomodeset

---------- Post added at 06:56 PM ---------- Previous post was at 06:54 PM ----------

Do you mean I would be more successful installing from a DVD? Will try removing rhgb and quiet

---------- Post added at 07:10 PM ---------- Previous post was at 06:56 PM ----------

Originally Posted by smr54

Does it give some information and then go black? If so, that's the changing over to framebuffer, which can be avoided by adding nomodeset (I think---that might have changed, but try that and see if it helps)

Thank you, nomodeset did the trick. Could you explain, what nomodeset does exactly?

[nonamedotc]

Originally Posted by dilynux

Could you explain, what nomodeset does exactly?

May be this will help - http://lists.fedoraproject.org/piper...ne/373864.html

[dilynux]

Thank you. Appreciate it. But does this also mean I will need the same parameter when installing from the DVD?

[wildcard442]

I had the same problem and nomodeset fixed it for me. When the 10 second count down timer came up, I pressed tab for boot options and typed nomodeset at the end and pressed enter. Worked like a charm. Thanks!