FC3 upgrade to FC4

[Robert Buick]

On Sun, 2005-06-19 at 19:43, Alexander Dalloz wrote:
> Am So, den 19.06.2005 schrieb Robert Buick um 20:36:
> 
> > After a successful & trouble free FC4 upgrade of my RH9 box I decided to
> > upgrade my dual-boot Inspiron 8500 notebook from FC3 to FC4 and now have
> > a couple of immediate problems.
> > 
> > 1)Whilst upgrading I used the default Boot Loader Configuration option
> > i.e. 'Update boot loader configuration' instead of 'Skip boot loader
> > updating' and consequently cannot now boot to Windows. Any ideas how
> > this can be rectified? 
> 
> Your grub.conf changed? What happens when you choose the WindowsB. entry
> in grub's boot screen.

The entry for Windows no longer exists...

> 
> > 2) I am also unable to get the NVIDIA drivers to install using the
> > latest NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-7664-pkg1 drivers and download of the
> > kernel-2.6.11-1.1369_FC4.src.rpm (installed as root).
> 
> You don't need the kernel src.rpm - the kernel-devel rpm is sufficient.
> Then make sure that your graphics card is supported by the latest
> NVidia.com driver and not one of the legacy models (readme file on
> nvidia.com). Further there are reports by several people that the use of
> the proprietary fails. As Fedora can't do much about that you will
> better contact NVidia and/or search their support forum.
> 
> > Rob Buick
> 
> Alexander
>