installation help

[Jim Cornette]

Paul wrote:
> Alexander Dalloz wrote:
> 
>> Am Do, den 24.03.2005 schrieb Paul um 16:13:
>>  
>>
>>> I tried and failed to install this OS on my laptop (PIII-650 384 megs 
>>> of ram).  I did this by downloading FC3-i386-DVD.iso and burning it 
>>> onto a dvd with my desktop (running Windows XP), and then 
>>> installing.  I had it destroy all former partitions (Windows ME) that 
>>> was on there previously, and everything seemed to go very well.  Then 
>>> it was done about a half an hour later and I rebooted.
>>>
>>> It hangs while trying to boot up and I can't figure out the cause.  
>>> Here's the information I see during bootup that may or maynot be 
>>> relevant :
>>>
>>> Booting 'Fedora Core (2.6.9-1.667)'
>>> root (hd0,0)
>>> Filesystem type is ext2fs, partition type 0x83
>>> kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.9-1.667 ro root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 rhgb quiet
>>>   
>>
>>
>> Remove the "rhgb" parameter from the kernel line. To do so press "a"
>> while sitting at the grub boot screen. You then see the kernel parameter
>> line and there remove "rhgb". Then boot. Probably that will fix it. If
>> it does you will later have to either make the kernel parameter line
>> change being default or find the trouble maker. Would be needed to know
>> what graphics card you have in the host.
>>
>> Alexander
>>
>>
>>  
>>
> (when I say hang, I mean that it just stops.  The information displayed 
> above stays there for hours if I let it.)
> 
> This didn't solve the problem. Here's the screen I'm staring at now 
> instead:
> 
>    Booting command-list
> root (hd0,0)
> Filesystem type is ext2fs, partition type 0x83
> kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.9-1.667 ro root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 quiet
>    [Linux-bzImage, setup=0x1400, size=0x155da5]
> initrd /initrd-2.6.9-1.667.img
>    [Linux-initrd @ 0x17ee4000, 0xebc97 bytes]
> Uncompressing Linux... Ok, booting the kernel.
> audit(1111703767.4294965660:0): initialized
> Red Hat nash version 4.1.18 starting
>    Reading all physical volumes.  This may take a while
>    Found volume group "VolGroup00" using metadata type lvm2
>    2 logical volumes(s) in volume group "VolGroup00" now active
> INIT: version 2.85 booting
> Setting default font (latarcyrheb-sun16)                              
> [   OK   }
> 
>                Welcome to Fedora Core
>                Press 'I' to enter interactive startup.
> Starting udev:                                                         
>            [   OK   ]
> Initializing hardware...   storage network audio
> 
> 
> Still hanging (stopping) here and doing nothing.  It has an S3 Savage/IX 
> Graphics Controller.
> 
> The complete specs in PDF format are at the Toshiba website at this 
> address: 
> http://www.csd.toshiba.com/cgi-bin/tais/su/su_sc_outFrm.jsp?moid=1073810427&ct=DS&soid=638150&BV_SessionID=@@@@1641604106.1111702530@@@@&BV_EngineID=ccciaddeeijdddjcgfkceghdgngdgnn.0 
> 
> 

I noticed that the webpage specified that you have acpi power 
management. Some laptops have broken acpi and must be booted using 
acpi=off in the grub config file. In my case, I must add acpi=on in the 
kernel line to get my computer to boot.

I think that acpi is enabled in the kernel now, so most likely you might 
have luck with adding acpi=off in the grub boot.

I supposed the same problem that Alexander mentioned regarding the 
removal of rhgb from the grub entry during bootup.

I have this example added to my grub.conf file. You can edit the grub 
line to reflect similar parameters and see how they work.

Pressing a during bootup and then backspacing out rhgb quiet and 
replacing the line with a space followed by acpi=off might be worth a 
try. If you want to boot into runlevel 3, then add another space 
followed by a 3 as in the example below.

This is a guess of course.

Jim


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title Fedora Core (2.6.10-1.770_FC3)
         root (hd0,0)
         kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.10-1.770_FC3 ro root=LABEL=/ acpi=on 3



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