[Cbe-oss-dev] Newbie: which kboot?

[David Woodhouse]

On Fri, 2007-12-21 at 12:08 -0500, Robert McGwier wrote:
> CAVEAT time.  I could NOT install F8 using kboot from the DVD.  It
> bombs with some weird error which I would repeat if I had time.  I did
> the "rpm to replace the repository" and yum upgrade.  I had to resolve
> a couple of small inconsistencies (mostly due to
> fedora-development.repo insisting on being installed by default and
> "fc9" stuff getting installed).

You need to add 'xdriver=fbdev' to the command line when booting the F8
installer, due to a very broken change which was made between the final
release candidate and the actual release of F8.

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=374201

This bug still exists in the development tree. It would be really nice
to get it fixed, Adam.

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dwmw2