Fedora Users — Re: Problems Installing Fedora Core 2

Hi I had a lot of the same problems trying to get FC2 working in a dual boot mode with WinXP. I found setting the HDD's to cable select and putting the FC2 HDD as the master. To do this plug the HDD as cable select on the ribbon cable with the black end and the blue end makes it the slave. Then when you run through the instal grub picks up the other drive.

HOWEVER AT THE MOMENT MY XP HDD DOES NOT BOOT FROM GRUB. I THINK IT IS SOMETHING TO DO WITH CHAINLOADER. But if I disconnect the FC HDD winXP works fine.

On 8 Jul 2004, at 17:06, Kris Haight wrote:


Yes. I just did using ActiveStates MD5SUM program for Windows. They all
check out.

-- Kris

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Have you run a MD5 check on the install discs themselves?

Hello All-

I usually don't join and then immediately post, but these problems
with Fedora are driving me nuts. But I am wonder if anyone here can
help.

The first three are minor problems, then I will get to the big one.

My System Configuration:

AMD Athlon "Thunderbird" 1.2ghz
Asus A7V133 (KT133A Chip) Motherboard
768MB PC133 RAM
ATI All-In-Wonder 7500
Dell D1226H 19" Monitor
3Com 3c905x Network Card
Linksys WMP54G "Wireless-G" Network Card
Adaptec AIC-7850 PCI SCSI Card
Promise ATA100 UIDE Controller (on board)
Creative Labs SoundBlaster Live! Value
VIA USB Controller
Samsung SM-352B 52x CDR/RW + DVD Drive
Aopen 32X CDROM Drive
Microsoft Wheel Optical USB Mouse
Dell "Internet" Keyboard USB
HP OfficeJet K80 (connected via USB)

(Yes I have no free slots in my computer!)

Hard Drive Configuration:

(on-board IDE controller)

IDE 1:1 --> Samsung CDR/RW/DVD Drive
IDE 1:2 --> Open
IDE 2:1 --> Aopen 32x CDROM Drive
IDE 2:2 --> Open

(Promise UIDE Controller)

UIDE 1:1 --> Western Digital 80GB Drive
/dev/hde1 --> <swap> - 1024mb - Swap FS
/dev/hde2 --> /boot - 150mb - Ext3
/dev/hde3 --> C:\ (Windows XP) - 60GB - NTFS
/dev/hde4 --> / - 16GB - Ext3

UIDE 1:2 --> IBM DeathStar erm I mean Desktar - 75GB

/dev/hdf1 --> D:\

- 75GB - NTFS
UIDE 2:1 --> Maxtor 80GB
/dev/hdg1 --> E:\ - 80GB - NTFS
UIDE 2:2 --> Open
Other System Notes: I have "Plug N Play OS" set to "No" in

the BIOS.

(helps with video capturing in Windoze). There is also no way to
'control' the Promise controller (as you would in the

BIOS). It truly

is "plug N pray" and
auto detects my drives as "Ultra DMA 5"


Now on to the problems...

Problem #1
----------

I cannot use a USB to PS/2 Mouse converter with my Microsoft Wheel
Mouse Optical USB. I can only use it as a USB mouse. This is not a
total bad thing, but I like my USB ports free for other things.

Problem #2
----------

Installer does not set the /boot partition as the active parition,
instead it keeps my Windows partition as the active partition. This
would not make grub accessible. Once I was able to change

the active

paritition to my /boot partition, I could get the grub

loader screen,

and load into Linux and/or Windows XP.
Maybe I have not setup a dual boot system in a while, but I

could have

swore that the older redhat installers set the active

partition to be

the /boot partition (where applicable). Maybe I am wrong?
Problem #3
----------
I get this message when installing..
"Unable to align partition properly. This probably means

that another

partition tool generated an incorrect partition table, because it
didnt have the correct BIOS geometry. It is safe to ignore, but
ignoring may cause
(fixable) problems with boot loaders."

I just ignore it because I did at one point get linux to

load, and it

did not effect the boot loader.


Problem #4 (The big one)
----------

Problem: Installer locks up after I select "Custom", then select
"Next" from the installer GUI.

First off, I have to say that I did get it to install at one point
because I used Text mode. However, even after I got it to

install, it

locked up on startup.
I can replicate this problem over and over again, and it

locks up at

the same exact place. I cannot get past this point.
Things I've Tried:
1. Installing via text mode. Which works, but now locks up

on startup

2. I've checked the CDs for errors, No problems using Media

Check 3.

Ram a Memtest86. Ran this overnight, no issues 4. Manually

resized the

hard drive with kernel params. Did not help (nor did
not remove that error message)
5. Turned off Power Management in BIOS. Did not help.
6. Passed noapic noalcpic arguments to kernel. Did not help.
7. Thought maybe it was a heating issue. Took off covers,

left it off

overnight and tried again. No Workie.
If it means anything, I can replicate a similar problem

when trying to

load Mandrake 10.0. But I've never had a problem with

Windows XP, but

then again
it *IS* Windows :)

Any help on these problems (particually #4) is greatly appreciated.

TIA

-- Kris


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