Trouble booting fresh Core 3 install

[David Nelson]

-----Original Message-----
From: Kam Leo [mailto:kam.leo at gmail.com]
Sent: Wednesday, January 19, 2005 4:49 PM
To: For users of Fedora Core releases
Subject: Re: Trouble booting fresh Core 3 install


On Wed, 19 Jan 2005 16:01:38 -0600, David Nelson
<David.Nelson at motion-ind.com> wrote:
> Well, I haven't updated the BIOS and am unfamiliar with how to do so.  Regarding RH8, I tried the upgrade to no avail so I just reformatted the disc to install FC3.  That is where I am today.
> 
> On the Hardware front, I'll take a look.  The machine has a slave drive Maxtor HD and a Yamaha CD-RW internal attached.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Sergio fernandez [mailto:s.fernandez at albion.co.uk]
> Sent: Wednesday, January 19, 2005 9:38 AM
> To: For users of Fedora Core releases
> Subject: Re: Trouble booting fresh Core 3 install
> 
> Have you tried updating the PC bios to the latest version.
> Also Have you tried to do a clean install of FC3 and not upgrading RH8
> (be careful not to delete your work).  Maybe just chuck in a spare hard
> disk just to see if the upgrade path is the issue.
> Try removing any hardware that is not needed for the initial install
> and add them later.
> Hope this helps
> 
> On 19 Jan 2005, at 15:24, David Nelson wrote:
> 
> > No, its the original standard CRT Micron.
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Sergio fernandez [mailto:s.fernandez at albion.co.uk]
> > Sent: Wednesday, January 19, 2005 9:22 AM
> > To: For users of Fedora Core releases
> > Subject: Re: Trouble booting fresh Core 3 install
> >
> >
> >
> > Are you using a flat screen display?
> >
> >
> > On 19 Jan 2005, at 14:18, David Nelson wrote:
> >
> >> Unfortunately, adding these commands below did not help.  I still see
> >> a waterfall of multi-colored pixels.
> >>
> >> I'm at a total loss on this.  Redhat 8.0 installed just fine with the
> >> current hardware configuration.
> >>
> >> Any other ideas?  I really want to stay with Linux.
> >>
> >> Thanks
> >> Dave
> >>
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: Tony Dietrich [mailto:td at transoft.demon.co.uk]
> >> Sent: Tuesday, January 18, 2005 9:14 AM
> >> To: David Nelson
> >> Subject: Re: Trouble booting fresh Core 3 install
> >>
> >>
> >> On Tuesday 18 Jan 2005 14:55, you wrote:
> >>> Thanks for replying Tony.  The waterfall happens directly and almost
> >>> immediately after the GRUB boot command.  Within a minute or two, it
> >>> freezes to a static multi-colored screen of gibberish.
> >>>
> >>> I have seen reference to 'quiet' and rhgb' but where would those
> >>> go/where
> >>> would I remove them?  They are not on the command line args in GRUB
> >>> as
> >>> viewed by typing 'e'.
> >>>
> >> OK
> >> Sounds like there's some incompatibility between the hardware and FC.
> >>
> >> Try adding one or more of the following to your command line when you
> >> boot
> >> from grub (by pressing 'e'):
> >> noapic
> >> noide
> >> noapm
> >>
> >> If neither of those work, try booting into single mode 'single'
> >> and seeing if you can get into the machine.
> >>
> >> Any successes/failures, come back to me with reports :p
> >>
> >> --
> >> Tony Dietrich
> >> -------------

> A Google search says that your pc is equipted with a 32MB nVidia Riva
> TNT 2 graphics adapter.  Seach the list archives for booting problems
> with nVidia cards.

Thx, will do

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