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    Fedora 14 install

    Discussion in 'Linux Compatibility and Software' started by sgttoughbook, Dec 3, 2010.

  1. sgttoughbook

    sgttoughbook Notebook Consultant

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    ok guys im going to rock your brains, hear is my question, i have a notebook with no cd-rom and does not support usb booting, so i found a site that shows you how to boot from usb using a program called ploop i think. it say it lets u boot from usb.you burn the image file to the floppy , then you boot from floppy when it comes up it gives you the option to boot from usb, well when i do it starts to load fedora from my thumb drive but freezes on the first line of the bios and just has a blinking cursur, is there any other way to load fedora as a dualboot partition with my win 7, and is it easyer to install Back track 4.


    thanks i know its confusing

    -john-
     
    sgttoughbook, Dec 3, 2010
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  2. likuidkewl

    likuidkewl Notebook Enthusiast

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    It is confusing, IME you should have already passed the BIOS when F14 starts.

    I do believe you mean it is hanging when trying to boot at some point in the F14 startup process(hopefully a grub issue). First culprit is often the graphics card, you best bet is to head on over the the fedora forums and search there for anyone with a. your computer or b. your graphics card at least ;)

    backtrack is a crapshoot also, could work could not.

    This may sound dumb but try this just for giggles, when the grub boot menu comes up hit F6 or whatever key is listed to edit the grub command line options, append "mem=1G" w/o quotes to the kernel boot line, this was an issue with some dells that I had, that kicked the same error that you are seeing and this information was not readily available on the web.
     
    likuidkewl, Dec 3, 2010
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  3. debguy

    debguy rip dmr

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    Afaik plop is just some kind of secondary boot manager that's started by your primary boot manager, loads its own USB drivers and can boot an OS sitting on a USB key. So you'd have to integrate that in your primary boot manager somehow.

    If you were asking how to install a Debian system without USB or CD/DVD boot I'd say use debootstrap. Obviously there is a software called febootstrap that's supposed to do the same for Fedora:
    febootstrap, bootstrapping tool for creating supermin appliances
    It's pretty clear what it should do, but I have no idea what it actually does. So better make a backup before using this.
     
    debguy, Dec 6, 2010
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