Hi, I'm new to this list, have been using RH 8.0 for the last year or two and SuSE before that. Trying to install FC3 on a new machine after my old one gave up the ghost. My hardware: MSI KM4M-L mobo, onboard VGA (S3 UniChrome), LAN & sound Athlon XP 2600+ Barton 512MB Kingston DDR400 ValueRam running at 333 80GB Seagate Barracuda HDD 6GB Fujitsu HDD (not used for Fedora) Creative 48x CD-ROM RH 8.0 installs and runs fine on this hardware, I'm using it as I write. Problem (1): MD5 sum and installer's media check on my FC3 CD ISO image files all passed. However media check on CDs burnt from disc 2 & 3 ISOs failed: tried 5 burns in all. I then tried mounting the ISO files as loop and comparing with the CD contents using "diff -r". This produced no diffs between any of the ISO images and their corresponding CDs, even the 5 CDs that had failed the media check. I installed from the ISO files on my hard drive. Problem (2): FC3 install appeared to work but system consistently hung on boot. It would get as far as: "Initializing hardware... storage network audio done [OK]" Then the screen would blank for a second, come back, show: "Configuring kernel parameters" and then just sit there. Not locked up, but going nowhere. This happened consistently after reinstalling in various configurations, except that a minimal install booted OK. Solutions tried to (1): Following advice on other threads here, I tried: a) disabling ACPI in BIOS, b) appending "noapic" to boot command c) appending "apci=on" to boot command d) appending "apci=off" to boot command I also tried (c) & (d) with "acpi" and "apic" as I wasn't sure which was correct. None of these made any difference. I then randomly tried: e) removing "rhgb" from boot command. This fixed the hang, and led me to... Problem (3): X failed to start, with error "No valid modes found". Preceding this in the log was a long string of messages where it had tried numerous modes and rejected them all due to hsync allegedly out of range. The installer had correctly identified the VGA & monitor (Iiyama Pro 410). I haven't got any further with this because of... Problem (4): I was getting bored with continually re-trying Fedora installs followed by re-installing RH 8.0 so that I had a working machine to browse for help and generally do stuff. I only have one machine. So I installed RH 8.0 on my 6G drive where the FC3 ISO files were, temporarily moving the ISOs to the 80G drive. However when I try to mount the Fedora partition from RH8.0 to copy the files back, I get an error: mount says "wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/hda2, or too many mounted file systems" and syslog says: "EXT3-fs error (device ide0(3,2)): ext3_check_descriptors: Block bitmap for group 0 not in group (block 1868783461)!"/ "EXT3-fs: group descriptors corrupted !" Same happens if I try to mount as ext2. I had allowed the FC3 install to choose the partitioning. Was that a mistake? fdisk says: Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/hda1 * 1 13 104391 83 Linux /dev/hda2 14 9729 78043770 8e Linux LVM Can RH 8.0 read a "Linux LVM" filesystem? If so, how? Thanks in advance for any help. I'm the sort of Linux user who's in it for the stability rather than the hacking, so if your honest advice is "Fedora's not for you, try another distro", that would count as help! Cheers, Dave Send instant messages to your online friends http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com
