On 8/10/05, larryharriman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <larryharriman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Hi, > > I am a linux newbie - I am a convert from Windows 2000 and XP and .NET > programming(still doing that for my day job). I am trying to install Fedora > Core 3 to a old Gateway someone gave me. It is a Pentium 2, 300 mhz machine > with 320 MB of RAM. It has two drives, one is a 10 gig drive(Primary) and a > secondary drive that has 2 gig. > > I first tried the auto partioning in the fedora 3 install wizard, it seemed > to pick every correctly but after a successful install when the machine goes > to reboot it hangs with just a blinking cursor at the top of the screen. I > can't access a command prompt to do anything. > > I even tried reinstalling it and manually creating my partitions - that did > not work either. One guy here at work who is a linux guy, said it might be > an issue with the hard drive being so big(since the 10 gig was probably > added later) and the bios needs some type of overlay program in the first > partition. XP had no problem with it, but he said it might be because XP was > fooling the bios by making it think a bigger drive was smaller. > > I used to have Windows XP running on this machine before I wiped it to > install Fedora, and XP ran just fine. > > Please any help you could offer would be greatly appreciated. > > Larry > > > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: > http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list > > Did you configure Grub (or LILO) during install?
