Am Do, den 08.07.2004 schrieb Kris Haight um 17:44: > 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 I have the same board. > 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. Can't tell you something useful about that. I have the same mouse and always used it as an USB mouse. > 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? Disk Druid should do that. Actually I don't have in mind if there is a forcing switch. I guess your problem comes from having not used the Linux partitioner to partition your disk (see below). During installation you can switch to console 2 by pressing Strg+Alt+F2 and then run fdisk. "fdisk -l /dev/hdX" i.e. shows you which partition is the active one. > 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. Known issue, when you did not partition your disk(s) using the Linux tools but partitioned the whole disk using a Windows[tm] tool, i.e. Partition Magic. You may have luck, you may run into serious problems. In general I suggest to not using any Windows[tm]/DOS partitioner if running Linux in parallel. > 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. May I guess it is your graphics card? > I can replicate this problem over and over again, and it locks up at the > same exact place. I cannot get past this point. Which point exactly? > 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. At grub boot prompt press "a" and then remove at the kernel line the parameters "rhgb quiet" and append a "3" (all without quotes). Then boot. If that is successful and ends with a login prompt on console then it is clearly caused by something with your graphics card. > Kris Alexander -- Alexander Dalloz | Enger, Germany | GPG key 1024D/ED695653 1999-07-13 Fedora GNU/Linux Core 2 (Tettnang) on Athlon CPU kernel 2.6.6-1.435.2.3 Serendipity 18:05:11 up 1 day, 13 users, load average: 0.05, 0.05,
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