Unable to start fedora installation
 

Hello

I just assembled a new computer and finished installing windows (I had to since few games will not run over wine ie. LoL :/) and left nearly 300GB of free, unallocated space for linux. Now i have 3 liveCDs:

- Linux Fedora KDE 16 - 32 bit
- Linux Fedora KDE 16 - 32 bit
- Linux Fedora KDE 16 - 64 bit

none of them will boot into live system but i used them previously and all worked so not an issue with the discs. Now when i choose the boot medium i choose my dvd drive with disc inside. I enter into install fedora. Then i get bright milky background with a cursor flashing and some logs that then say:

after which i can't do anything, have to restart. Now i had similar problem before but i solved it by choosing AHCI as the hard drive controller. I did that here and it still won't boot. I have no idea how to tackle this and it's hard to consider other distro since i've got used to it so much. Below i'll post my computer specs, and I'd be grateful for any help. Thanks

- intel i5 2500K @ 3.30GHz
- P67A-GD53 (B3)
- NVidia GEForce 560Ti 1GB
- samsung T3 spinpoint 1TB with 2 windows partitions taking over 700GB
- 8GB of kingston RAM

Just a side note: are liveCD's the right medium to install an OS? I'd try to get an install medium instead (CD/DVD) because I suspect the install procedure of a LiveCD not to live up to the expected standards...
But, just my loose thoughts here...

Thor

install medium for fedora only has Gnome and i want KDE. Thanks.

did you try booting in safe mode or using nomodeset in the kernel line

I don't have a F16 (only F15) liveCD, and I don't use KDE - so treat this as you may ... :p

Get into the boot parameters and remove "quiet rhgb" - that way you might get to see some more messages rather than have them disappear into plymouths black hole. There might also be a "basic video" option although I've found the nouveau driver fine for NVidia.
Else you might have to play with things like ACPI or APIC - can't see why on an i5 though ...

i take it this is what you downloaded
http://spins.fedoraproject.org/kde/
http://spins.fedoraproject.org/kde/#downloads

fedora IS VERY Gnome centric
some of gnome is going to be installed

I would use the normal standard dvd
Fedora-16-x86_64-DVD.torrent
http://torrent.fedoraproject.org/

install gnome AND KDE in a default install ( just add KDE )
- fedora is well known for having BAD installs with "custom" installs ( if you pick and choose software)

then slowly remove Gnome ( you will not be able to remove it all )

nomodeset solved the problem. But can anyone tell me what was the problem? By the way fedora 16 on 24" screen looks sweeeeet :D

Crappy video card ... :p

Search for "kms linux".

Sidenote: On a machine like that (you have 8GB of RAM, so I am assuming that you use either Vista 64 bit or Win 7 64 bit) havinh AHCI enabled is the recommended way. There exists no reason to limit your hardware to the old compatible mode, both Vista/7 and Linux are totally capable to use AHCI out of the box.

i've read what you pointed me to and it looks like nvidia isn't using open API not because the card is crappy. In fact i play all the games on maxed out settings. 560 TI is very good.