> > What it actually does is to download Fedora Media Writer which when run > > downloads the correct image and writes it to a memory stick. > > Won't boot for me. > I keep getting kernel panics and am real tired of the power button. > I have to boot C6 with acpi=off, but that did not help. > > Something about sync, attempt to kill process 1, kernel panic. > > I'll see whether I can find something else. Check your hardware - all these things might well be symptomatic of an hardware issue. > > > > To be clear: > > > flv and avi caused it to complain about the lack of mp4 codecs. > > > > Yes, because MPG codecs are not license free. > > I hadn't realized flv and avi were synonyms for mpg. They're not. flv and avi are containers, mpg is an encoding method that can be used in those containers. P.