On Saturday 10 Mar 2012 17:41:15 Michael Fischer wrote:
downloaded and burned 12.1 iso, 64bit
target machine: new Dell XPS X8300 6007BK i72600 Radeon HD 6450 2x500GB disks in hardware raid
1) Initial bits of the install come up ok (get the initial menu) 2) Select "Installation" 3) screen goes to dark flat green, otherwise blank 4) wait a few seconds, hit ESC, screen goes blank white 5) and that's it. Nothing else happens or helps
Tried "Check Installation", which had the very odd result of coming up ok, but with the screen wrapped 50% to the right (i.e. the left half of the screen was on the right, and the right half was on the left of the monitor).
It did a plain progress meter, eventually deciding that things were OK, then went into the install screens. They "worked" although were still wrapped around. (nice touch that it did detect the hardware raid and seemed happy with it).
From what you describe here with the wrapping it sure sounds like an issue with graphics drivers, the first thing to try would probably be to see if you can continue with the installation by passing 'nomodeset' as a kernel boot paramater.
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