On Thu, 2008-01-24 at 19:40 +0200, Gilboa Davara wrote: > On Thu, 2008-01-24 at 12:36 -0500, Rick Bilonick wrote: > > I have a 64-bit dual opteron system that has run Fedora 3, 4, 5, 6, and > > 7. I installed Fedora 8 (install not upgrade, default partitions) - no > > problems of any kind were reported. When I rebooted to bring up the > > system, a seg fault message starts repeating after the boot process has > > progressed a short way. > > > > Previously, I had tried running the KDE and Gnome live distributions - > > but for some reason, the display was unusable. I put in a Fedora 7 live > > dvd and it boots up and displays without any problem. The computer has > > an ATI Technologies RV280 (Radeo 9200 SE] display. > > > > Any ideas? > > > > Rick B. > > > > Can you redirect the output to a serial console [1] and post the output? > I've got a large number of dual/quad x dual-core Opteron machines > running flawlessly. (Fedora 7/8, RHEL 4/5, CentOS 4/5.) > > - Gilboa OK, I haven't done the console but I did try to install the Fedora 7 64-bit (it was running the 32-bit Fedora 7 previously). Fedora 7 installs without a problem but, again, would get a kernel panic on reboot. The error messages seemed to suggest it could not find the root file system because it was confused about harddrives. The system has a raid drive (someone else installed it some time ago) so I removed the power and tried to install Fedora 8 again. This time Fedora 8 boots OK, lets me set up a new user, etc. But now for some reason the video display is screwed up. It looks like an old analog television - it jumps around, is not stable and is unreadable. I can get to a shell console. The /etc/X11/xorg.conf file shows it is using the radeon driver which would seem reasonable given it has a Radeon 9200 SE video adapter. The monitor is a Dell P1110 which will do upto 1600x1200. I saw a suggestion to use ATI's proprietary fglrx driver, but from what I can tell, it doesn't support cards 9250 or below. I don't understand how going from F7 (which has no problem with the ATI 9200 card) to F8 could break this. Rick B.
