Re: Problems Installing Fedora Core 2
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Date: 07/08/04
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Date: Thu, 8 Jul 2004 11:52:50 -0400 (EDT) To: "For users of Fedora Core releases" <fedora-list@redhat.com>
Have you run a MD5 check on the install discs themselves?
> Hello All-
>
> I usually don't join and then immediately post, but these problems with
> Fedora are driving me nuts. But I am wonder if anyone here can help.
>
> The first three are minor problems, then I will get to the big one.
>
> My System Configuration:
>
> AMD Athlon "Thunderbird" 1.2ghz
> Asus A7V133 (KT133A Chip) Motherboard
> 768MB PC133 RAM
> ATI All-In-Wonder 7500
> Dell D1226H 19" Monitor
> 3Com 3c905x Network Card
> Linksys WMP54G "Wireless-G" Network Card
> Adaptec AIC-7850 PCI SCSI Card
> Promise ATA100 UIDE Controller (on board)
> Creative Labs SoundBlaster Live! Value
> VIA USB Controller
> Samsung SM-352B 52x CDR/RW + DVD Drive
> Aopen 32X CDROM Drive
> Microsoft Wheel Optical USB Mouse
> Dell "Internet" Keyboard USB
> HP OfficeJet K80 (connected via USB)
>
> (Yes I have no free slots in my computer!)
>
> Hard Drive Configuration:
>
> (on-board IDE controller)
>
> IDE 1:1 --> Samsung CDR/RW/DVD Drive
> IDE 1:2 --> Open
> IDE 2:1 --> Aopen 32x CDROM Drive
> IDE 2:2 --> Open
>
> (Promise UIDE Controller)
>
> UIDE 1:1 --> Western Digital 80GB Drive
> /dev/hde1 --> <swap> - 1024mb - Swap FS
> /dev/hde2 --> /boot - 150mb - Ext3
> /dev/hde3 --> C:\ (Windows XP) - 60GB - NTFS
> /dev/hde4 --> / - 16GB - Ext3
>
> UIDE 1:2 --> IBM DeathStar erm I mean Desktar - 75GB
> /dev/hdf1 --> D:\ - 75GB - NTFS
>
> UIDE 2:1 --> Maxtor 80GB
> /dev/hdg1 --> E:\ - 80GB - NTFS
>
> UIDE 2:2 --> Open
>
> Other System Notes: I have "Plug N Play OS" set to "No" in the BIOS.
> (helps
> with video capturing in Windoze). There is also no way to 'control' the
> Promise controller (as you would in the BIOS). It truly is "plug N pray"
> and
> auto detects my drives as "Ultra DMA 5"
>
>
> Now on to the problems...
>
> Problem #1
> ----------
>
> I cannot use a USB to PS/2 Mouse converter with my Microsoft Wheel Mouse
> Optical USB. I can only use it as a USB mouse. This is not a total bad
> thing, but I like my USB ports free for other things.
>
> Problem #2
> ----------
>
> Installer does not set the /boot partition as the active parition, instead
> it keeps my Windows partition as the active partition. This would not make
> grub accessible. Once I was able to change the active paritition to my
> /boot
> partition, I could get the grub loader screen, and load into Linux and/or
> Windows XP.
>
> Maybe I have not setup a dual boot system in a while, but I could have
> swore
> that the older redhat installers set the active partition to be the /boot
> partition (where applicable). Maybe I am wrong?
>
> Problem #3
> ----------
>
> I get this message when installing..
>
> "Unable to align partition properly. This probably means that another
> partition tool generated an incorrect partition table, because it didnt
> have
> the correct BIOS geometry. It is safe to ignore, but ignoring may cause
> (fixable) problems with boot loaders."
>
> I just ignore it because I did at one point get linux to load, and it did
> not effect the boot loader.
>
>
> Problem #4 (The big one)
> ----------
>
> Problem: Installer locks up after I select "Custom", then select "Next"
> from
> the installer GUI.
>
> First off, I have to say that I did get it to install at one point because
> I
> used Text mode. However, even after I got it to install, it locked up on
> startup.
>
> I can replicate this problem over and over again, and it locks up at the
> same exact place. I cannot get past this point.
>
> Things I've Tried:
>
> 1. Installing via text mode. Which works, but now locks up on startup
> 2. I've checked the CDs for errors, No problems using Media Check
> 3. Ram a Memtest86. Ran this overnight, no issues
> 4. Manually resized the hard drive with kernel params. Did not help (nor
> did
> not remove that error message)
> 5. Turned off Power Management in BIOS. Did not help.
> 6. Passed noapic noalcpic arguments to kernel. Did not help.
> 7. Thought maybe it was a heating issue. Took off covers, left it off
> overnight and tried again. No Workie.
>
> If it means anything, I can replicate a similar problem when trying to
> load
> Mandrake 10.0. But I've never had a problem with Windows XP, but then
> again
> it *IS* Windows :)
>
> Any help on these problems (particually #4) is greatly appreciated.
>
> TIA
>
> -- Kris
>
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