Re: [Core2Test3] Installation - No Fedora Core CD
by David Lerner
This is similar to a problem that was seen when installing Red Hat 9 on
a HP DL-380. The CD is initially read by Syslinux using the BIOS to do
CD I/O. The kernel and initrd are loaded and the kernel takes over. A
bug in the ide driver prevented the kernel from detecting the CD drive.
Subsequently the kernel could not find the CD that it booted from.
There are a number of work arounds:
1. The CD can be NFS mounted on a different computer. A network install
can then complete the install.
2. A a partition can be created on the disk with the contents of the
first 2 or 3 CDs. This is cone with a rescue CD or with some other
installed Linux system. The rest of the installation is then completed
by selecting local hard disk for the installation medium.
3. Change the IDE connections for the CD-rom. Perhaps the kernel will be
able to see the drive.
Dave
> Date: Sat, 1 May 2004 14:05:49 -0700 (PDT)
> From: Stefan Lecho <stlecho(a)yahoo.com>
> Subject: [Core2Test3] Installation - No Fedora Core CD
> To: fedora-test-list(a)redhat.com
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> When booting from the first CD of the Core2 Test3
> release,
> the installation asks for the language and keyboard
> settings. When the 'Local CDROM' is choosen as
> installation media, the following message is
> displayed: "No Fedora Core CD was found which matches
> your boot media. Please insert the Fedora Core CD and
> press ok."
>
> I've inserted all 4CDs, but without any succes. Could
> anybody please help me with this issue ?
>
20 years
Re: test3 vs make xconfig
by A1tmblwd＠netscape.net
Sorry, typo on my part. Use "make gconfig" not "make qconfig". You can get the straight scoop from the kernel README.
The advice regarding qtconfig applies to version 3.2.1. You need to click on the font tab and uncheck the "Enable Anti-Aliased Font Support (Xft)" box.
The "Enable Anti-Aliased Font Support (Xft)" option has been removed from Qt Configuration, version 3.3.1.
I have not encountered any problems using either xconfig or gconfig under FC2T3.
--Kam
Gene Heskett <gene.heskett(a)verizon.net> wrote:
>On Saturday 01 May 2004 16:25, A1tmblwd(a)netscape.net wrote:
>>Gene Heskett <gene.heskett(a)verizon.net> wrote:
>>>Greets all;
>>>
>>>I just ran a make xconfig on that fresh install of test3 on my shop
>>>box as I wanted to turn on a full fledged ISA bus scan since there
>>>are two custom made 8 bit ISA cards containing a few relays and
>>>apparently a whole 8 bit wide input port per card, and while I have
>>>what appears to be normal fonts elsewhere, all I get on the xconfig
>>>screen are gfx chars, little boxes of various shapes and half,
>>>quarter, and full moons in a character sized box.
>>>
>>>That box isn't on a network allthough it may be eventually when I
>>> can figure out howto get some cat5 run to the shop building. I
>>> hate digging ditches, been there, done that once already for power
>>> out there.
>>>
>>>Running gnome of course since there is apparently no terminals
>>>available if I switchdesk to kde. And it sure don't look like the
>>>kde I'm looking at here!
>>>
>>>How can I fix these fubared characters?
>>>
>>>--
>>>Cheers, Gene
>>
>>Use qconfig. It's not broken. If you must use xconfig, an anonymous
>> poster in a 2.6.5 kernel forum recommended running qtconfig.
>> Deselect (turn off) the option labeled "Enable Anti-Aliased Font
>> Support (XFT)". It worked for me.
>>
>Thanks Kam. If you are refering to "make qconfig", thats an error 2,
>no such option in the makefile or some such twaddle.
>
>When I arrived up the hill at the shop, and woke up the monitor(I'd
>left it running when I came down the hill to send the previous msg),
>the screen was trashed, and I had to exit x and restart it to clean
>up the screen (I'm using a blank screen as the screensaver). Now it
>seems to me the least fussy screensaver is a blank screen, needs
>little of no cpu. But this is test 3, so...
>
>That machine did pass about 3 full passes of memtest86 nice and
>cleanly.
>
>Next suggestion? Does a make menuconfig still work?
>
>>-- Kam Leo
>>
>--
>Cheers, Gene
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20 years
VIA Apollo Pro266 (Pentium III)
by ByteEnable
VIA Apollo Pro266 Setup Issue's:
FC Test 3 will install and reboot however these issue's will occur:
o Ethernet will not start
o Playing a test sound with PCI Sound Card will hang the system
If you do not play a test sound, you can boot to a desktop
To fix these issue's you will have to set ACPI=OFF as a kernel parameter.
Then you will have to remove the nic card in setup and re-install it to get a
working network.
Byte
20 years
Install from FireWire CD Drive
by Jerry O. Dueitt, Jr.
I have a Sony VAIO PCG-SRX87 laptop that I have been running Linux on
quite happily for two years now. I was wondering if there was a way to
install Test 3 from the iLink drive that the system uses. I can pass the
kernel option of firewire and it will load the ohci driver, however I
can not get it to load the sbp2 module. I eventually got it installed by
using the iLink drive to boot the installer and then plugging in an
external USB DVD-RW drive and using the USB-MassStorage module. I did
some poking around the image during the install process and couldn't
locate an sbp2 module on the install media. Is this a known issue, can I
expect to be able to install FC3 final from my firewire CD drive?
-Jerry.
20 years
FC2T3 install on Athlon64
by Chuck Mead
So I have now done an x86_64 upgrade install from FC1 followed by a
fresh install with the same partitioning on the same machine. Both times
I had issues with getting the boot loader installed. The first time it
actually crashed during install and the second time it just hung. After
the second time I went ahead and rescued it and created a grub.conf from
scratch since anaconda never made one.
With both installs Nautilus would not run so I am using KDE right now
which seems to be fine. I haven't tried xfce4 yet but I will in a few
minutes.
--
csm(a)moongroup.com, head geek
http://moongroup.com
20 years
[Core2Test3] Installation - No Fedora Core CD
by Stefan Lecho
When booting from the first CD of the Core2 Test3
release,
the installation asks for the language and keyboard
settings. When the 'Local CDROM' is choosen as
installation media, the following message is
displayed: "No Fedora Core CD was found which matches
your boot media. Please insert the Fedora Core CD and
press ok."
I've inserted all 4CDs, but without any succes. Could
anybody please help me with this issue ?
Regards.
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20 years
gnome vnc session from fc2t3 box has wrong icon set compared to local gnome login
by Jef Spaleta
Anyone want to try to confirm this problem for me? and tell me which
component is actually at
fault? My suspicion is its gconf.
1)local gnome desktop login is active on the t3 box, using the default
BlueCurve icon set.
2) .vnc/xstartup reads as:
#!/bin/sh
# Uncomment the following two lines for normal desktop:
unset SESSION_MANAGER
exec /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc
resulting vnc session is running the gnome desktop seems to be using
the GNOME icon set and not the BlueCurve set.
Now if i logout of the local t3 gnome session and then start the vnc
service, the vnc gnome desktop does have the BlueCurve set. Naively
this seems like a gconf issue. Am i right?
Is this worth filing?
-jef
20 years
Fedora Core 2 Test 3 on an IBM Thinkpad 600x
by Anand Rangarajan
Quick impressions of installing and running Fedora Core 2 Test 3 (FC2t3)
on an IBM Thinkpad 600x (2645-5FU)
Hardware: Pentium III 650MHz (SpeedStep reduces speed to 500MHz when
operating on batteries)
Graphics: Neomagic 256ZX
Display: 13.3 TFT
Installation of FC2t3 went fairly smoothly. For some reason, it
complained that my partition table (generated by a previous redhat 9
installation which I wiped out in the course of installing FC2t3) was
inconsistent and that I would have problems booting. Recommended that I
make a bootdisk. However, I was never again prompted to make a bootdisk
later on in the installation. (Also, I read somewhere that the 2.6
kernel is too large for a boot floppy so perhaps this should be fixed.)
I picked a 1024x768 generic LCD display but for some reason, the display
configurator chose a 800x600 24 bit resolution. Perhaps it detected
2.5MB of video memory and automatically picked the 800x600 resolution?
Redhat 9 allowed me to run 1024x768 at 24bpp.
When I installed FC2t3, I did not have any network card in the machine.
(More on this later.)
Since I prefer KDE to GNOME, after installation, I logged in to my KDE
desktop. FC2t3 had no trouble with my previous KDE 3.2 settings which
were already present on my /home partition with one exception. Autorun
started running immediately and tried to find a non-existent CD.
When I tried to add/remove packages using the GUI, I ran into a problem.
KDE (or is it the installer?) mounted the FC2t3 CD 1 and brought up the
contents in a Konqueror filemanager window which is very distracting
since I was in the middle of choosing packages to install. Later when
the add/remove package GUI asked me to remove CD1 and insert CD2, I
could not eject CD1 since it was mounted. I had to unmount the CD, then
eject it and insert CD2. This should be fixed.
Since FC2t3 is GNOME centric, I expected KDE to be fairly broken and it
was. There was no JuK (which I was looking forward to). Perhaps this is
because MP3 support is disabled?
I rebooted and inserted a CISCO Aironet-based 80211b card. While the
card was recognized, I could not get network connectivity. However, I
did not try hard enough. I rebooted once again and inserted a Compaq
WL110 card (orinoco-cs driver). This was also recognized and this time I
didn't have to do anything since the network was set up automagically
after booting. I keep seeing Connected, Disconnected toggling messages
when I do dmesg but so far it seems to be working all right. Previously
(when the machine was running redhat 9) the orinoco-cs 0.13e driver
would freeze the machine solid but this seems to be fixed. Downloaded a
75MB file without any problems or lockups.
When I rebooted for the second time, it said that it had to do some
recovery of my / ext3 partition and later on mentioned that it had
cleaned up some inodes. WTF is that? AFAIK, I had cleanly rebooted. This
should not have happened.
up2date does not work. Could not connect to the (somewhat local) duke
mirror. Perhaps yum.conf has to be fixed. When I ran yum update from the
command line, it took a while but updated everything. Got tons of
selinux error messages.
Tried to install apt-0.5 from the FC testing directory on
apt.freshrpms.net. Complained about a missing signature and generated
tons of selinux-based errors which still show up when I do dmesg. I then
disabled selinux in the security settings.
When FC2 boots up, it brings up a console localhost login prompt for a
few seconds and just when I try to type in my name, the display manager
comes up. Somewhat disconcerting.
Have not checked suspend/resume functions.
Unfortunately, since I prefer KDE and want my multimeda to work out of
the box, I think I'll try SUSE 9.1 when it comes out. FC2 is not bad but
seems too developer- and GNOME-centric for me.
Anand
20 years
test3 vs make xconfig
by Gene Heskett
Greets all;
I just ran a make xconfig on that fresh install of test3 on my shop
box as I wanted to turn on a full fledged ISA bus scan since there
are two custom made 8 bit ISA cards containing a few relays and
apparently a whole 8 bit wide input port per card, and while I have
what appears to be normal fonts elsewhere, all I get on the xconfig
screen are gfx chars, little boxes of various shapes and half,
quarter, and full moons in a character sized box.
That box isn't on a network allthough it may be eventually when I can
figure out howto get some cat5 run to the shop building. I hate
digging ditches, been there, done that once already for power out
there.
Running gnome of course since there is apparently no terminals
available if I switchdesk to kde. And it sure don't look like the
kde I'm looking at here!
How can I fix these fubared characters?
--
Cheers, Gene
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20 years
ogle won't play DVDs
by Gregory Gulik
I'm trying to get ogle to play DVDs on FC2t3 on a Dell 8100 with an
NVIDIA video card using the nv driver.
When I try to play a DVD I get teh following:
.
.
WARNING[ogle_mpeg_ps]: Lost Sync at offset: 6136 bytes
WARNING[ogle_mpeg_ps]: Lost sync, resyncing
demux: unknown stream_id: 0xf0
WARNING[ogle_mpeg_ps]: Lost Sync at offset: 10232 bytes
WARNING[ogle_mpeg_ps]: Lost sync, resyncing
demux: unknown stream_id: 0xf0
WARNING[ogle_mpeg_ps]: Lost Sync at offset: 92152 bytes
WARNING[ogle_mpeg_ps]: Lost sync, resyncing
demux: unknown stream_id: 0xf0
WARNING[ogle_mpeg_ps]: Lost Sync at offset: 98296 bytes
WARNING[ogle_mpeg_ps]: Lost sync, resyncing
demux: unknown stream_id: 0xf0
WARNING[ogle_mpeg_ps]: Lost Sync at offset: 100344 bytes
WARNING[ogle_mpeg_ps]: Lost sync, resyncing
Using djbfft for IMDCT transform
SNDCTL_DSP_GETCHANNELMASK: Invalid argument
@@X Error of failed request: BadAlloc (insufficient resources for
operation)
Major opcode of failed request: 142 (XVideo)
Minor opcode of failed request: 19 ()
Serial number of failed request: 57
Current serial number in output stream: 57
I installed ogle from the FC1 rpms on yarrow.freshrpms.net
mplayer usually works, sometimes it gives the same error too, but I
prefer ogle for playing DVDs.
--
Greg Gulik http://www.gulik.org/greg/
greg @ gulik.org
20 years
