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Fedora Core 5 on Sony Laptop

Discussion in 'The Alternative OS' started by asoliman, Sep 12, 2006.

  1. asoliman Newcomer, in training

    Hi all

    I am a first timer here. I have a problem getting my Fedora core 5 to boot on my SONY VAIO FE28 laptop. It installs all the way without any problems and then when I reboot it shows the following messages before freezing and turning my screen red or green:

    PCI : Failed to allocate mem resource #6: 20000@c 0000
    INIT version 2.85 booting
    Set time: ----OK
    Starting Udev: _ (this is where it freezes, and the screen background turns red or green).

    I noticed that it identifies my laptop screen as "Unknown" when starting the initial DVD boot.

    Can anyone help.

    Best Regards
    asoliman, Sep 12, 2006
    #1

  2. Nodsu Newcomer, in training Posts: 9,431

    Try booting with noacpi or noapic kernel options.
    Nodsu, Sep 12, 2006
    #2

  3. asoliman Newcomer, in training

    Is that during normal boot or during initial boot using the installation DVD? I am not sure how to specify kernel options during normal hard disk boot.
    asoliman, Sep 12, 2006
    #3
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