ok so i stayed up all night to download fedora and then just to find out that i wasted a cd .

because i burned it and then i wanned to boot into it with the default settings and it seemed like all serious and that it was going to boot but my pc just restarts ( when i say pc i refer to my laptop , but its easier to write pc )

so i thought ah well all right let's try it in a vm and there it says it can;t find i dont know what header for what and whaaat ...

but i think it should work because the cd boots and shows me the groob menu it has on the cd ..

my hardware is linux compatible because i ran knoppix , ubuntu and linux mint just fine on this pc , though had problems with sound , but that wuldnt be such a problem to cause a system reboot right ..

so please help .. any ideas ...

Well... The obvious question is "do you have an i686 processor"?

well i'm very confused with cpus.

i know i have 64 bit, but i have a slow connection and like that when i download it to be able to use on all computers , so i always click to download the 32 bit version .

So everytime i got ubuntu , linux mint, knoppix , mepis ... etc

they were 32 bit i386 , but with fedora it doesn't have this i386 option , only i686.

and the i386 is a dvd image , which i don't want because i have a slow connection .

so what can i change in the iso image's initrd or the kernel linuz or whatever so it can be on my laptop and on others ..

i use ubuntu 10.04 ... if that helps/.

Unless his computer is from the 90s, then yes.

OP:
When does your computer reboot? Do you get any error messages? Show all error messages. Verify that your download is not corrupted.

Did you verify the checksum before you burnt the ISO?

My computer is bought in 2008

i don't think it's from the 90's

anyways , here is what happens :

i get the bios , i select to boot from the CD .

It loads the nice grub screen where it lets me select some of the options it gives . i leave it 10 seconds so that it boots with the default settings.

after that , it gives me a black screen for a few seconds and seems like it's going to load the kernel and it restarts . Doesn't give me any error at all.

As for the checksum ... i don't know how to use 'em.

If you have a corrupted ISO it will never work.

it sounds like the graphics issue
fedora has had some problems with some built in chips ( seeing as this is a laptop ) there is a built in chip in it.

now what is it ? intel? ati? nvidia? and it's make and model and number #
and also what make and model is this laptop ?

it is intel . the make and model is something unknown to me

maybe giving you the name of the laptop would help :

GATEWAY M6848 - the one with 4GB RAm

EDIT :
@lazlow thanks a lot for the link . as i saw figuring out the checksum was too hard i decided to get it through the torrent. i'll let you know what happens

EDIT 2:

the video is intel and these are specifications

Video controller: Intel® Graphics Media Accelerator X3100
Up to 384 MB of Dynamic Video Memory


EDIT 3 :
it seems like it was a corrupted iso , because the one i had before didn't even run in a virtualbox ...
so i think that this new iso i got with the torrent will work on my laptop too (i tried it in a vm and is working )

Thank you all for being so kind . I would have never thought i would get a corrupted iso .. i'm to trustful in technology it seems ..