F9 Installation Challenge

Dave Cross davorg at gmail.com
Fri Jun 6 19:37:02 UTC 2008


On Thu, Jun 5, 2008 at 11:57 AM, David Jansen <jansen at strw.leidenuniv.nl> wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 04, 2008 at 10:27:00PM +0100, Dave Cross wrote:
>> As mentioned in a couple of previous mails to this list, trying to
>> upgrade my laptop[1] from F8 to F9 has gone horribly wrong. I'd really
>> appreciate any help to fix this.
>>
>> I basically have two problems.
>>
>> 1/ I can't use any of the Fedora boot media. When I boot with the
>> installation DVD I get to the "press enter to install or upgrade
>> Fedora" screen, but the keyboard is disabled so I can't press enter.
>> I've also tried with the Live CD and the rescue disk, but neither of
>> those work either. I've also created a boot USB key, but the BIOS on
>> this system doesn't support booting like that. This is a problem I've
>> hard with Fedora installation media right back to F7. For the last few
>> upgrades I've used "yum upgrade".
>
> Others have suggested the use of an external keyboard already. There is
> another issue that may be causing your problem: the BIOS. I encountered
> the same thing on a Dell desktop pc. In my case, a BIOS upgrade solved
> the problem, but there is also another solution: when you keep the shift
> key pressed while booting the cd, it reverts to the "old" behaviour
> without the fancy boot menu, and you get a boot prompt where you can
> press enter or type a boot commandline with options.

Thanks for the suggestion.

I can't find any suggestion that there's a BIOS update available for
this system.

I can press ESC get to a "boot:" prompt. But I then have no idea what
to type at the prompt. Any suggestions much appreciated.

Cheers,

Dave...




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