[SOLVED] I cannot boot "normal" fedora

zoelee4 · 10-23-2016, 10:09 AM

I cannot boot the 64bit fedora livecd iso from the fedora website. I am however able to use the XFCE iso from http://alt.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/live-respins/ I read in another forum that this is because of intel driver issues, however I never found a fix. Any help? Thanks!

John VV · 10-23-2016, 05:01 PM

well without knowing any of the relevant and needed information ....
there is not much anyone can do

Desktop?
laptop?
tablet?
Intel ONLY gpu ?
Intel/nvidia gpu?
a Intel gpu on the mobo and a nvidia or amd card ?
what ???????

zoelee4 · 10-23-2016, 05:10 PM

Sorry about the lack of clarity. I'm running a Razer Blade PC. It's a laptop. Here's the specs:

Intel® Core i7-6700HQ Quad-Core Processor (2.6GHz / 3.5GHz)

NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 1060 (6GB GDDR5 VRAM)

Thanks for your reply!

zoelee4 · 10-25-2016, 08:22 PM

Is there a way to add drivers to the live usb? I still cannot boot fedora from the website. Thanks!

Emerson · 10-25-2016, 08:34 PM

You didn't tell us whether this laptop has Optimus graphics.

Ztcoracat · 10-25-2016, 09:29 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by zoelee4

Sorry about the lack of clarity. I'm running a Razer Blade PC. It's a laptop. Here's the specs:

Intel® Core i7-6700HQ Quad-Core Processor (2.6GHz / 3.5GHz)

NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 1060 (6GB GDDR5 VRAM)

Thanks for your reply!

What's the exact model of your Razer Blade?

zoelee4 · 10-25-2016, 09:32 PM

Its the razerblade 2016 with 512 GB of storage.
http://www.razerzone.com/store/razer...D+%20-%20256GB

Ztcoracat · 10-26-2016, 09:43 AM

That's an exceptionally nice laptop that you have!

Anyway that's a Nvidia Ge Force FTX 1060 (6GB GDDR5 VRAM) GPU.

Is that Optimus graphics zoelee4?

From searching information about that GPU it delivers up to 3x the performance of previous-generation graphics cards, plus innovative new gaming technologies and breakthrough VR experiences. I don't know if that qualifies as Optimus grahpics or not:-

Did you check the integrity of the fedora .iso file before burning it to CD or making it bootable via a flash drive?

zoelee4 · 10-26-2016, 09:14 PM

Ok, I figured out that I need to disable the Nvidia graphics on boot. For anyone else out there with this same question, if you have the same PC as me and wand to boot fedora, ubuntu, debain or other linux distributions that I have not yet tried, you need to add this kernel boot parameter:

nouveau.modeset=0

thanks!

Ztcoracat · 10-26-2016, 11:04 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by zoelee4

Ok, I figured out that I need to disable the Nvidia graphics on boot. For anyone else out there with this same question, if you have the same PC as me and wand to boot fedora, ubuntu, debain or other linux distributions that I have not yet tried, you need to add this kernel boot parameter:

nouveau.modeset=0

thanks!

Thanks for the update and the details:-

syg00 · 10-26-2016, 11:22 PM

Actually that disables KMS in the open source equivalent - I'm surprised that's required in Fedora.