RAID and FC5 Installation Problems
by Hassan Dar
Hi everyone.
I've been having endless headaches with the FC5 installation. I've managed
to get most of them sorted but I'm now really stumped.
Well I was having the common problem of the install hanging at the X Server
screen with a black background and 'X' Cursor. I used the 'linux nodmraid'
at the boot prompt and it successfully got me to the GUI. However, I am
trying to install on a RAID 0 partition and as you can see, if I use
'nodmraid' I can't activate my RAID partition for the installer to see. I'm
at a loss for what to do I can't see any other option as dmraid would be
needed to actually show RAID files but at the same time I need to get to the
GUI Installer!
Here are a few things to note:
Text install DOES NOT WORK It has the same problem as the GUI install, it
works only if I use 'nodmraid'.
I have tried the 'linux vesa' command which is a common fix to the black
screen and x cursor problem. However, If I boot with this command, when X
server starts up my monitor gives a 'No Signal' message.
I am installing the x86_64 release of FC5 and I DO have a 64-bit processor.
All 6 discs of my installation media have been SHA1SUM verified and are all
complete.
I burned the media first as a simulation at the slowest speed possible on my
drive (8x 1,200kb/s) and then I used nero to verify the data. Passes all
tests.
With DMA turned off (with the ide=nodma command) the CD media all pass the
mediacheck test.
I have been trying to do a Hard Drive install but can burn the discs if this
will cause complications.
I have tried running the dmraid -v -ay command as soon as the GUI appears,
but this does not do anything.
I have two RAID 0 Arrays, Array 1 is comprised of two identical 160GB
Seagate SATA drives, Array 2 is comprised of three identical 40GB Seagate
IDE/ATA Drives. I do not wish to install anything on the SATA RAID array as
it is for storage only, I wish to install fedora core on the IDE/ATA Array.
Both of these Arrays work fine under Windows XP Professional so I know my
Arrays are fine.
My RAID is configured by the onboard nForce 4 RAID controller also known as
software or fake RAID.
I have used the 'dmraid -v -ay' command and then used 'ls /dev/mapper/' to
verify my drives were all there, linux correctly indentifies them with this
command.
Here are my system specs:
Processor: AMD Opteron 148 - Venus Core (64-Bit Processor)
RAM: 1024MB PC3200 DDR RAM
Video Card: ATI RADEON x800GTO2
Motherboard: MSI K8N Neo4-F (nForce 4 Chipset)
SATA Hard Drive: 2x Seagate Barracuda 160GB (RAID 0 Array 1)
ATA Hard Drive: 3x Seagate 40GB (RAID 0 Array 2)
Monitor: Acer 19" Widescreen LCD (1440x900 Native Res)
I posted a few threads on Fedora Forums which might a give a bit more
insight into the problem:
http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=107352
and
http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=107567
I would be very grateful to anyone who could help me, I've posted on fedora
forums but no one was able to help me sort it out. I have also tried the
fedora IRC community who also could not help me. Thank you for your time.
17 years, 11 months
How to verify transmission quality & cables on gigabit network?
by Rob
Hello,
I have a cluster, master + 8 nodes, connected via
a Netgear Gigabit Ethernet Switch (model JGS516).
The cables are of CAT5 type.
Elsewhere I read that for a gigabit network, one
should use CAT6 type cables, to avoid bad
transmissions. Is that so?
I already have done basic speed checks, that indicate
a throughput of about 0.5 Gbps. Hence the network
appears to operate on half of its spec. speed.
Question 1:
Should I worry about this reduced speed?
Question 2:
How to check the transmission quality?
Should I inspect the output of "/sbin/ifconfig eth0"
for errors/dropped/overruns/collisions etc. in the
RX/TX lines?
Lan card info:
master: Tigon3 10/100/1000BaseT Ethernet
tg3: eth0: Link is up at 1000 Mbps, full duplex.
tg3: eth0: Flow control is on for TX and on for RX.
nodes: Realtek RTL8169
eth0: Auto-negotiation Enabled.
eth0: 1000Mbps Full-duplex operation.
Thanks for advice and help!
Rob.
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17 years, 11 months
Livna ATI drivers
by Marcelo Magno T. Sales
Hi, people
I can't make livna ATI drivers to work with my ATI All-in-Wonder 9000
pro (radeon 9000) video card. They don't give me 3D acceleration.
Besides installing kmod-fglrx and xorg-x11-drv-fglrx, is there any
other package I should install or any manual configuration I shoud
attempt?
Thanks,
Marcelo
17 years, 11 months
Re: Beagle, what can I do with it?
by ron
On Mon, 01 May 2006 09:41:30 -0400
Bob Goodwin Wrote:
> I see that "beagle" is part of FC5 and
> has generated
> a lot of files but I can't find any way
> to make it do anything?
> Entering "beagle" goes no where, "bash:
> beagle: command not found"
>
> I don't find a "man page" for it.
> Perhaps I could simply remove it via
> yum?
> Or is there some trick to getting it to
> do something? Google has not
> helped.
>
> Any help appreciated.
>
> Bob Goodwin, Zuni, Virginia w2bod
> ---
>
The Beagel Wiki:
http://beaglewiki.org/Main_Page
-ron-
17 years, 11 months
Re: IRQ affinity
by Matthew J. Roth
Gangaraju.Chowki wrote:
> I have installed fedora-2.6.9-1.681 on SMP 4 way processor(Intel(R)
> Xeon(TM) CPU 3.00GHz).
>
> when i tried to bind IRQ processing to specific CPU or number of CPUs by
> setting up smp_affinity,affinity value getting changed but within secs the
> sysetm randomly chaging with some other values..(for all IRQ's on the
> system).
>
> I think you undestood me.
>
> Any help appreciated!
Gangaraju,
The irqbalance daemon is changing the affinity values. It is safe to
stop it.
For more details, see this post:
Re: Is irqbalance Redundant on 2.6 Kernels? - Resolved
<http://www.redhat.com/archives/rhl-list/2006-March/msg06227.html>
Matthew Roth
InterMedia Marketing Solutions
Software Engineer and Systems Developer
17 years, 11 months
how to disable lid events in kernel (acpi)
by Paul Johnson
My Dell D800 latitude appears to have a buggy lid switch. Sometimes
when the lid is closed, the sleeping laptop wakes up. I would like to
tell ACPI to ignore all lid events, but cannot understand how to do
it without removing acpi altogether. I don't want to do that, because
suspend is otherwise working fine now. I understand I could remove
the kernel's "button" module, but then I'd lose the power button,
which I need to wake up the laptop.
Basically, I just wish I could change the LID status in ACPI, so
enabled changes to disabled in this output below.
# cat /proc/acpi/wakeup
Device Sleep state Status
LID 3 * enabled
PBTN 4 * enabled
PCI0 3 disabled
USB0 1 disabled
USB1 1 disabled
USB2 1 disabled
USB3 1 disabled
MODM 3 disabled
PCIE 4 disabled
Any advice.
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University of Kansas
17 years, 11 months
missing dependencies
by lostson
Hello
I am trying to install some things and am getting some missing dependencies
errors like this
Missing Dependency: libpisock.so.9 is needed by package gnome-pilot
Missing Dependency: gnome-vfs2 = 2.14.0 is needed by package gnome-vfs2-smb
Missing Dependency: libpisock.so.9 is needed by package gnome-pilot-conduits
If i try to install them manually as well still no luck any ideas, thanks.
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17 years, 11 months
Dell 2405FP
by Richard Emberson
In the FC5 'Display settings' tool one can find the Dell
2405FP as one of the listed displays. If one googles some
one finds folks having problems configuring their 2405FP
with fedora. Before I buy such a display I'd like to know
if one can actually use it in its full 1920x1200 digital mode
with FC5.
Any video card recommendations?
Thanks
RME
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17 years, 11 months
5.1 Support
by Michael Offermann
Hello,
I have some trouble with my Soundcard. It's a Realtek ALC850 device on a
Asus A8N-SLI Premium Mainboard (Chipset: nVidia® nForce4 SLI MCP).
Stereo Mode does work pretty, but for me it's not possilbe, or lets
better say, I don't know how to activate the 5.1 Support. According to
this, the sound is realy terrible, because, the low frequencies (the
bass) are not supportet by my tweakers, so they crack a lot.
Does anybody know of this problem and can tell me the solution?
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17 years, 11 months
Wired Ethernet Connection at Hotel - DNS
by Rick Bilonick
Re my previous message, it appears the need for frequent re-activation of
the connection is due to just losing the DNS information. I can stay
connected while using ssh or telnet. But anything requiring names instead
of ip's stops after a few minutes.
Rick B.
17 years, 11 months