I installed Mageia 2 X86-64 DVD final release on a Macbook Pro 5,1 15" model. Installation appeared to proceed okay and I got the Grub boot menu after installation. However, whatever boot selection I made Mageia 2 Failsafe with or without modifications of the boot command, adding "xdriver=nvidia" or "xdriver=vesa" or "nomodeset" or whatever boot up gets stuck. If I boot to Mageia 2, I get the following error message: Failed to start Wait for Plymouth Boot Screen at Quit See 'systemctl status plymouth-quit-wait.service' for details If I boot to failsafe, I get something different: dracut Warning: Unable to process initqueue dracut Warning: "/dev/disk/by-uuid/{UUID}" does not exist Dropping to debug shell sh: 0: can't access tty: job control turned off dracut:/# If I install from the Live CD, everything just boots up fine. So, the DVD installation is defective. VERY FRUSTRATING.
My DVD upgrade consistently failed (4 times) after installing several packages. I finally booted into a shell and did an online command line install as suggested by the Release Notes under the Upgrading section. 2200 packages later, I rebooted with the 'xdriver=radeon' option and was presented with a GUI login, but I did not login just yet. I dropped into my Alt-F1 command prompt, logged in, updated my repositories once again, and upgraded to catch any missed packages. Rebooted again, and boot into my GUI. I enabled the other repositories in MCC that Mageia does not enable automatically, and updated once more. Before rebooting again, I ran 'drakcut -f' to optimize the initrd per the Errata, and then rebooted for the last time. My machine has been running beautifully ever since. However, it was a long couple days to get the install right. I agree it should not be this painful. I, unfortunately, had a similar experience with Mageia 1 when I upgraded from Mandriva 2010.2, so I knew how to recover. I also have been using "this" distro since Mandrake 8 and through all its iterations.
CC: (none) => sglafata
Hi, we're sorry that the DVD installation for Mageia 2 didn't work with your setup. Can you please test installation from Mageia 4 alpha so that we can try to work on your problem before Mageia 4 arrives, or close this bug as fixed for cauldron (we can't fix a released installer, it's too late. That's what alpha/beta phase is for :))?
Keywords: (none) => NEEDINFOVersion: 2 => Cauldron
CC: (none) => stormi
Version: Cauldron => 3
CC: sglafata => (none)
Waited for info for 15 months. Rehret we have to close as OLD. Thanks for the report.
Status: NEW => RESOLVEDCC: (none) => dvgeversResolution: (none) => OLD