Disk Driver for Dell Inspiron 530 Desktop

Guy Andrews gja2 at optonline.net
Mon Apr 28 13:03:42 UTC 2008


Thank you. If  I had only read the prompt carefully I would have seen 
that I only had to hit tab. I will look up the command extension and try it.

fedora-list-request at redhat.com wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 26, 2008 at 11:02 PM, Guy Andrews <gja2 at optonline.net> wrote:
>
>   
>> How do I send a grub command to the Fedora DVD. It is called directly from
>> the BIOS or is there away around that?
>>  I think I can find the grub command, but I don't see how to use it
>>  As others have reported ubuntu installs and works fine. It can see the disk
>> and the ethernet, and finds the Vista partitions and reads them.If I can
>> find the disk driver it is using I think I could use that on Fedora 8, since
>> both are Linux. There might be kernel version issues.
>>     
>
> When the DVD is booted it starts with a grub menu where it asks you if
> you want to install, rescue, etc. You can edit like a normal grub menu
> because that's what it is.
>
> I have my Inspiron 530 set to SATA mode using kernel option irqpoll
> For example here is my grub line:
>
> title Fedora (2.6.24.4-64.fc8)
>         root (hd0,0)
>         kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.24.4-64.fc8 ro
> root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 irqpoll rhgb quiet
>         initrd /initrd-2.6.24.4-64.fc8.img
>
> Thanks,
>
> Erich
>
>
>   




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