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I want to upgrade Fed 12 to Fed 13. So I ran the preupgrade. On reboot, I have a grub menu entry upgrade to Fed 13. I start it, it runs a bit, then leaves me with a blue screen, and nothing else. Ran the whole preupgrade again. Same story. Downloaded the live iso CD. Verify CD gives no problems, boot, runs a while, then leaves me with a small round black icon, which at first shows signs of life, but then freezes. No Live System!
Ha, I thought, I'll try Live CD Ubuntu. Same, runs until almost loaded, then nothing, just a coloured screen. No icons, nada.
Ha, I thought, I'll try Mepsis: same thing.
I'm beginning to think this is a hardware issue on my laptop, an Asus F5GL. Anyone else have this kind of trouble??
I can boot Fed 12 ok. I have Ubuntu 9.10 installed on another partition, but cannot get it to connect to a dsl internet connection, despite following the pppoeconf instructions exactly.
This was not an install, just booting from a Live CD. That is to say, first the upgrade went wrong. So I thought I'd install from a Live CD. Wouldn't load, so I tried others. No joy.
I've done lots of installs, and they shouldn't freeze anywhere, or just go blank. I could understand if the iso was corrupt, but I did verify it, and didn't get any probs. Three isos corrupt? Mepsis, Fed 13 and Ubuntu?
I just downloaded Centos Live CD. It works fine. Which would indicate that my hardware is ok. God knows what the problem is, but I suppose I'll just have to wait with the update.
Could be the video hardware not liking the latest Xorg packages. I see that your laptop uses an Nvidia video chip, as does my desktop (different chips, however). I had to do a bit of messing around to get Ubuntu to boot properly (both 10.04 and 10.10 development), but Fedora 13 (and Rawhide) haven't been a problem. Can you boot F13 into text mode? The U10.04 standard desktop live CD doesn't offer a text-mode boot, but, I was able to switch to tty2 and do a text-mode login.
Yeah, something along those lines. Fed 13 wants to use nouveau I hear, but a vesa or vga boot should work, and play with the resolution later, but I don't get to start. I don't know why the Fed preupgrade didn't work. Took long enough downloading! All that fuss for nothing!
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