On Wed, 2007-11-07 at 18:10 -0700, Karl Larsen wrote: > zotkop wrote: > > Only 4 hours left till the release of Fedora 8. > > Am I right? > > Could be that I had some miscalculations (I'm @ gmt +1) > > > > With love from Belgium, > > > > The impatient > Well I installed F8 and the trouble started. It booted fine but as > usual the Nvidia was all bad. Please define all bad? Did you get a working X display? Were you using the OSS driver or were you using the nVidia-supplied binary driver? > I had to write the proper things in > /etc/X11/file that got the pointer working. Pointer? > Then I had to mount my F7 to > F8 and copy the Nvidia bash file to F8 and on the 8th reboot F8 came up > fine with the proper image size ect. OK. I gather that you are using the binary driver. ... If you have problems with the binary driver, please report it to nvnews.net [1]. > But then the worst possible grub bug showed up! I tried to boot to F7 > but it was impossible :-( > > After a few tests I discovered that the F7 boot partition was > (hd0,5) and the F8 boot partition was (hd0,5). I tried to get F7 booted > but no luck. I finally unplugged the god dam SATA hard drive, re-did the > grub thing from the rescue CD and here I am back on F7 :-) > The Grub problem is because both boot partitions are partition 6. I > will fix this tomorrow. I assume that both are sitting on different disks, right? Be aware that if they are on two different disks, minor changes in the BIOS (read: boot from disk 0 vs boot from CDROM) might change the disk order that is being supplied -by the BIOS- causing you to boot from the wrong disk. > > There will be a bug written on the poor ability of F8 to work on a > computer with Nvidia VGA system even though anaconda found the proper > VGA and called it Nvidia. What is the nature of bug? X doesn't start? X goes down after a while? garbled display? Have you reported the bug? [2] - Gilboa [1] http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/forumdisplay.php?f=14 [2] https://bugzilla.redhat.com
