11.3 x86_64 Live CD gnome hangs on ATI RV730 (Radeon HD 4650)

Hi,

Can’t boot 11.3 gnome live cd on my x86_64 system with Radeon hd 4650 agp. Boots into a black screen and hangs (two tries). Boots fine on another pc with on-board radeon pci-x.

It also doesn’t work in latest Virtualbox.

Need I remind you: very, very bad impression for non-linux afficianados…

I’m a happy user of 11.1 and 11.2 on same physical pc. Please don’t fsck this up.

I had the same problem with live cds using 11.0, 11.1 11.2 and 11.3 as well (nvidia). Yesterday on 11.3 I was getting some untainted mount error. I tried it like 3-4 times and it finally installed. There is something wrong with all gnome live cds I guess…

The release notes recommend in such a case to boot with the boot code:

nomodeset

Did you try that?