On Thursday 26 February 2009, Craig White wrote:
On Thu, 2009-02-26 at 22:37 -0500, Gene Heskett wrote:
Greetings;
I killed x trying to make this )*(&%$ video card work so I put the f10 dvd in and updated it to F10.
Two immediate problems.
- Grub must have miss-fired, all I get is the grub shell and I have to
enter all the boot data line by line in order to boot. Is that a fresh grub- install?
that hasn't been a commonly reported problem with F10 but after you boot up, have you run 'grub-install /dev/sda' to ensure that grub is properly installed? What does /boot/grub/grub.conf look like?
# grub.conf generated by anaconda # # Note that you do not have to rerun grub after making changes to this file # NOTICE: You have a /boot partition. This means that # all kernel and initrd paths are relative to /boot/, eg. # root (hd0,0) # kernel /vmlinuz-version ro root=/dev/sdb3 # initrd /initrd-version.img #boot=/dev/sdb default=0 fallback=9 timeout=15 splashimage=(hd0,0)/grub/splash.xpm.gz # 0 title Fedora (2.6.27.5-117.fc10.i686.PAE) root (hd0,0) kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.27.5-117.fc10.i686.PAE ro root=UUID=811c07da-065e-4da7-988e-686913725b53 rhgb quiet nomodeset initrd /initrd-2.6.27.5-117.fc10.i686.PAE.img
# 2 title Fedora (2.6.27.5-117.fc10.i686) root (hd0,0) kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.27.5-117.fc10.i686 ro root=UUID=811c07da-065e-4da7-988e-686913725b53 rhgb quiet nomodeset initrd /initrd-2.6.27.5-117.fc10.i686.img
# 3 title fedora (2.6.28) root (hd0,0) kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.28 ro root=LABEL=/ rhgb quiet nomodeset initrd /initrd-2.6.28.img
# 4 title fedora (2.6.28.2) root (hd0,0) kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.28.2 ro root=LABEL=/ rhgb quiet nomodeset initrd /initrd-2.6.28.2.img
# 5 title fedora (2.6.28.3) root (hd0,0) kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.28.3 ro root=LABEL=/ rhgb quiet nomodeset initrd /initrd-2.6.28.3.img
# 6 title fedora (2.6.28.4) root (hd0,0) kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.28.4 ro root=LABEL=/ rhgb quiet nomodeset initrd /initrd-2.6.28.4.img
# 7 title fedora (2.6.28.5) root (hd0,0) kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.28.5 ro root=LABEL=/ rhgb quiet nomodeset initrd /initrd-2.6.28.5.img
# 8 title fedora (2.6.28.6) root (hd0,0) kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.28.6 ro root=LABEL=/ rhgb quiet nomodeset initrd /initrd-2.6.28.6.img
# 9 title fedora (2.6.28.7) root (hd0,0) kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.28.7 ro root=LABEL=/ rhgb quiet nomodeset initrd /initrd-2.6.28.7.img
#10 title fedora (2.6.29-rc2) root (hd0,0) kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.29-rc2 ro root=LABEL=/ rhgb quiet nomodeset initrd /initrd-2.6.29-rc2.img #11 title fedora (2.6.29-rc3) root (hd0,0) kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.29-rc3 ro root=LABEL=/ rhgb quiet nomodeset initrd /initrd-2.6.29-rc3.img #12 title Ubuntu jaunty (development branch), kernel 2.6.28-6-generic root (hd2,0) uuid dec5d1c4-967e-4946-8f1b-4b30b6ceee07 kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.28-6-generic root=UUID=cb93c923-1039-44ba-965f-9fb581dc16be ro quiet splash initrd /initrd.img-2.6.28-6-generic quiet
#11 title Ubuntu jaunty (development branch), kernel 2.6.28-6-generic (recovery mode) root (hd2,0) uuid dec5d1c4-967e-4946-8f1b-4b30b6ceee07 kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.28-6-generic root=UUID=cb93c923-1039-44ba-965f-9fb581dc16be ro single initrd /initrd.img-2.6.28-6-generic
#12 title Ubuntu jaunty (development branch), memtest86+ root (hd2,0) uuid dec5d1c4-967e-4946-8f1b-4b30b6ceee07 kernel /memtest86+.bin quiet ======================
The initial, commented /dev/sdb is correct, /dev/sda is the master drive on this mobo's only PATA interface, and is not normally mounted. /dev/sdb is the first SATA drive, and is selected as the first bootable hard disk in the bios. So I assume then that my command line to install grub again would then be: grub-install /dev/sdb ?
- Yum wants to update 435 packages, but many dependencies stop it. What
is the f10 procedure to bring that up to speed now?
you probably have some packages that have to be manually removed that are blocking the update.
I will probably hit a package that does this eventually, I have it processing the updates displayed about 1 yumex screen full at a time, and so far that hasn't triggered a dependency storm. That knocking sound, yeah, you know what it is.
Thanks Craig.
You probably want to check out this page http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/YumUpgradeFaq even if you used the DVD or preupgrade to install the update as this has a lot of information useful like 'clean stuff' section and various issues going from like 8=>9 or 9=>10
I have tons of self compiled stuff here, and will again shortly. The radeonhd driver supplied with the dvd is so slow I can repaint the screen with a 2" wide paint brush faster.
[root@coyote ~]# glxgears 1628 frames in 5.0 seconds = 325.495 FPS 1636 frames in 5.0 seconds = 327.036 FPS 1635 frames in 5.0 seconds = 326.821 FPS 1573 frames in 5.0 seconds = 314.521 FPS 1455 frames in 5.0 seconds = 290.819 FPS 1521 frames in 5.0 seconds = 304.192 FPS
Which surprises me, it feels a heck of a lot slower. Moving firefox an inch to the left takes about 10 seconds as it redraws the whole screen about 50 times doing it.
It was doing about 900 before I broke it. And I could move a screen as fast as the mouse moved. Sigh.
Craig