Making Fedora Boot CD
by Coy Scott
I partitioned the hard drive of my Gateway GT5224 PC so that I could make it
a dual boot system. It came with Windows XP. I installed Fedora Core 6.
However, I can't boot Fedora.
Whenever I installed GRUB on the master boot record (MBR) and then rebooted
windows XP, the software detected "file corruption" and forced a
reinstallation of Windows XP. This overwrote the MBR, removing GRUB and
making it impossible to boot Fedora.
So, I tried the only other installation option. I had the installation
program install GRUB on first sector of the boot partition (/dev/sda6).
However, when I reboot the computer, GRUB never gets to run because Windows
XP is using the MBR.
I've looked through a couple of books, and the GRUB documentation on the
"gnu.org" website. But, I haven't found a solution.
Can someone point me to documentation of how to make a boot CD? Can I put
GRUB on a bootable CD that will allow me to boot Windows XP or Fedora Core
6? Do you have another suggestion? Thank you.
In case it is helpful, here are the partitions that Fedora should be able to
access:
Mount Point: /boot
Device: sda6
Start: 24273
End: 24285
Size: 101 M
Type: ext3
Mount Point: /
Device: LVLogVol00
Start: ?
End: ?
Size: 28928 M
Type: ext3
Mount Point: /shared
Device: sda5
Start: 24535
End: 26453
Size 15053 M
Type: vfat
Coy Scott
17 years, 4 months
FC6: Desktop Messed Up After Updates
by Eric Mader
Hi,
I did a clean install of FC6 x64. (On VMWare 6.0 Beta on a Vista
Ultimate x64 (RTM) host.) When the system came up, it told me there were
156 updates. I applied all the updates except for frysk, which seems to
have conflicts w/ the previous version.
When I rebooted the system, my desktop is completely messed up. All of
the panels are gone execpt for one tiny one that has a few of the
widgets I had installed the windows have different borders, and the
terminal window seems to be larger and uses a different font.
Thinking that perhaps my session got messed up somehow, I tried logging
in as root, which I had never done before. That desktop was the same way.
Has anyone else seen this? What can I try to correct it?
Regards,
Eric Mader
IBM GCoC - ICU Team
17 years, 4 months
Re: Making Fedora Boot CD
by J M
>Thanks. But, I think I would prefer not to try reconfiguring the Windows
>XP bootloader.
You're going to either have to replace it or reconfigure it, unless you want
to get a boot floppy, or CD working... You can have grub chain load and
boot the Windows NT boot loader, or you can configure Windows XP to boot
Linux and/or load grub.
In your situation where you have a working copy of Windows pre installed,
and are not completely familiar with what you need to do, I would take this
approach.
Wipe, and reinstall Fedora. It's not completely necessary, but it will get
you to the right place in the most certain manner. This time though,
instead of installing grub to the MBR install it to the partition you are
installing Fedora on. (I think you said you already did this part,
installing it to /dev/sda6?)
When you reboot, because you have not mucked with the MBR you will once
again boot into Windows. Your best and simplest bet is to read the fairly
straight forward documentation and examples for bootpart at this website,
http://www.winimage.com/bootpart.htm, and use it to configure the nt
bootloader. It puts a one liner in c:\boot.ini and creates a file with a
copy of the linux boot record to get the boot process started.
The configuration is actually stored in a text file c:\boot.ini, so if you
back it up you can always get back to the beginning if you muck things up,
and while your mileage may vary, I seriously doubt it will get you to the
point where you cannot boot Windows.
Hope this gets you pointed in the right direction,
Jason
17 years, 4 months
Getting to 1920x1200
by potat0
Hardware:
Monitor - Gateway FPD2485W, LCD Widescreen (1920x1200)
Video Card - Intel Integrated i810
Desktop - KDE
Hello and TIA for any insight anyone can provide...
SWEET Monitor! But, I've only gotten it to 1600x1200 with that
awful stretchy-effect. (My original install used an IBM P260 CRT at
1600x1200.)
Right-click --> Configure Desktop --> Display
Here, my highest-res option under screen size is 1600x1200.
K Menu --> System --> Display
This dialog allows me to select "LCD Panel 1920x1200" for the monitor
type (the 2485W is not listed). I can also select 1920x1200 as the
Resolution under the "Settings" tab. Seems to have no effect.
Does anyone have any suggestions on how to get to 1920x1200?
-Leo!
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17 years, 4 months
Re: "offline" media check of install DVD?
by Andre Robatino
For a check done exactly the same way as the disc's built-in
mediacheck, except without having to reboot, one can install the
anaconda-runtime package from Core, and then run the
/usr/lib/anaconda-runtime/checkisomd5 command. The page
http://www.troubleshooters.com/linux/coasterless.htm
also provides a script to automatically read off the ISO from the CD or
DVD, which allows checking the ISO's SHA1SUM directly, and also how to
burn a CD using padding so as to sidestep the linux read-ahead bug.
From some experimenting burning the FC6 DVD ISO, I've found that the
same bug affects the reading of DVDs, and that it's necessary to add the
same type of padding in this case. Since growisofs doesn't allow adding
padding after the ISO (it passes -pad through to mkisofs, which puts
padding _inside_ the ISO itself, which is different, and anyway not
usable when trying to burn a downloaded ISO), one must use cdrecord.
I've done this successfully in exactly the same way as with a CD except
that one doesn't use the blank option. The resulting discs avoid the
read-ahead bug even though growisofs-burned ones don't.
17 years, 4 months
Problem starting cyrus imap in FC6 Was:[Re: Newbie needs help]
by Uwe Kiewel
Am Dienstag, 2. Januar 2007 13:19 schrieb Andreas Winkelmann:
> On Tuesday 02 January 2007 02:46, Carsten Laun-De Lellis wrote:
> > I ran into a problem with an postfix-mysql-cyrus installation and i don't
> > know what to do.
> >
> > I used the postfix-cyrus howto to set up the server. The postfix, the
> > saslauthd and mysql server started without any problem, but when i tried
> > to start cyrus i got the following error message:
> >
> > cyrus-imapd Datenbanken importieren:
> > [FEHLGESCHLAGEN]
> >
> > It is a german error message and it means:
> >
> > import of cyrus imapd databases: terminated
>
> Hmm, this is a Script from FC/RH. I don't know what it does, when it tries
> to "import Databases".
The FC Start/Stop scripts do as follow (only importent parts of the script):
Start:
$RUNUSER - cyrus -c "umask 166 ; /usr/lib/cyrus-imapd/cvt_cyrusdb_all >
${CONFIGDIRECTORY}/rpm/db_import.log 2>&1" < /dev/null
RETVAL=$?
if [ $RETVAL -eq 0 ]; then
success $"$BASENAME importing databases"
else
failure $"$BASENAME error importing databases, check
${CONFIGDIRECTORY}/rpm/db_import.log"
fi
Stop:
echo -n $"Exporting $BASENAME databases: "
cd $CONFIGDIRECTORY
$RUNUSER - cyrus -c "umask 166 ; /usr/lib/cyrus-imapd/cvt_cyrusdb_all
export > ${CONFIGDIRECTORY}/rpm/db_export.log 2>&1" < /dev/null
RETVAL2=$?
if [ $RETVAL2 -eq 0 ]; then
success $"$BASENAME exporting databases"
else
failure $"$BASENAME error exporting databases, check
${CONFIGDIRECTORY}/rpm/db_export.log"
fi
Please check the log files located in /var/lib/imap/rpm
HTH,
Uwe
PS: I do a x'post to Fedore Mailing List
17 years, 4 months
[Fwd: Re: Disk space for FC6]
by Edward S.P. Leong
Matt C wrote:
>>How many Disk space for the Whole System ( Install all packages ) ?
>>
>>
>
>You can do a *minimum* text-only install in just about one gig. I'm not
>sure about the whole thing, but you probably don't want everything if
>you're concerned about disk space.
>
>
>
I just open the file from CD Disk1 ( file:///D:/RELEASE-NOTES-en_US.html
<mailbox:///E%7C/Edward/emails/Sent?number=272080672&part=1.1.2&filename=RELEASE-NOTES-en_US.html>
) :
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
6.3.1.2.Hard Disk Space Requirements
The disk space requirements listed below represent the disk space taken
up by Fedora Core 6 after the installation is complete. However,
additional disk space is required during the installation to support the
installation environment. This additional disk space corresponds to the
size of /Fedora/base/stage2.img on Installation Disc 1 plus the size of
the files in /var/lib/rpm on the installed system.
In practical terms, additional space requirements may range from as
little as 90 MiB for a minimal installation to as much as an additional
175 MiB for an installation that includes nearly all the packages. The
complete installed packages can occupy over 9 GB of disk space.
Additional space is also required for any user data, and at least 5%
free space should be maintained for proper system operation.
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
So, I think 10GB Disk space for install all packages is ok ?
17 years, 4 months
Firefox djvu plugin on x86_64 not working
by Ian Brown
Hello,
I tried a djvu plugin for firefox 2.0 on x86_64 and it did not work (on
FC6).
When I access a djvu doc from the firefox resulted with "save/open
with" dialog instead of displaying the doc.
I am talking about the djvulibre plugin ( http://djvu.sourceforge.net)
A plugin from this same project for x86 with 32 bit and FC6 worked (with
firefox).
My question : did anyone had success with this plugin on FC6 (x86_64)?
Regards,
Ian
17 years, 4 months
Multimedia controller: ATI Technologies Inc Unknown device 4d52 ??
by Bill Case
Hi:
'lspc1' returns "Multimedia controller: ATI Technologies Inc Unknown
device 4d52". The unknown device is a TV Wonder 550 that has been
installed and works properly in WindowsXP.
'lsmod' returns no bttv or bt878 drivers.
As far as I can tell, from the ATI site and the tvtimes site, it should
be using the bttv driver, but this is not entirely clear to me from
their documentation.
GATOS is not applicable.
Can someone tell me how to get this TV Tuner card installed and working
in Fedora Core 6? Do I have to modprobe? What?
--
Regards Bill
17 years, 4 months
Cursor problems when running FC6 with Radeon driver in dual head mode.
by Vini Engel
Hi guys,
I was wondering if anyone is having any cursor problems when running FC6 with
two monitors. I have a Dell machine with an ATI Radeon dual port card that is
having some strange issues when I move the mouse cursor across to the screen
two.
The cursor doesn't change when it is on the second screen, for example if I
move it quickly from screen one to screen two and on screen one I was using a
text editor the cursor on screen two will be a text editor's cursor and will
never become a pointer nor any other type of cursor. If I move it over some
part of a window where we would expect the cursor to change it won't change.
I am at this moment using a driver provided by ATI but I have used the radeon
driver that comes with FC6 and I have the exact same problem. I also tried
using "SWcursor On" in my xorg.conf, this fixes the problem but creates
another one. When I move the mouse cursor anywhere on any screen it leaves a
trace of dirty on the screen as if I was moving a square and so my screen
becomes full of squares.
I am running xorg-x11-server-Xorg-1.1.1-47.fc6 and kernel 2.6.18-1.2849.fc6.
My xorg config is simple and I am running xinerama.
If anyone is having the same issue and would like to discuss this or if you
even know that could be causing this problem, I would very much like to talk
to you.
Regards,
Vini
17 years, 4 months
