RE: Installation of FC T2: GRUB interactive on1st installandGRUBhang on 2nd install
by Dan Thurman
Hi,
I tried EVERYTHING from grub-install, to interactive grub
so something is very wrong and I am unable to understand
it. The grub.conf file is correct, the MBR is written
on the same drive as the /boot (although / is on a different
drive, non-active parition) so I have no idea what the problem
is. Heck, I have installed RH MANY times with no problems,
so why is FCT2 failing for me?
Any ideas???
Thanks,
Dan
-----Original Message-----
From: Kenny Speer [mailto:kenny.speer@comcast.net]
Sent: Sunday, May 02, 2004 5:11 PM
To: For testers of Fedora Core development releases
Subject: Re: Installation of FC T2: GRUB interactive on1st
installandGRUBhang on 2nd install
Try 'man grub'
And then run grub-install and select the root part and then re-install
grub. My guess is that you selected to use the first sector of the boot
partition instead of the MBR.
~kenny
Daniel B. Thurman wrote:
>Hi,
>
>Oh wow... that would imply that I would have to manually
>scrub the hda drive and reinstall? I did previously had
>RH9 on it and when I installed the FCT2, I did a new
>install on it... you would think that the FC should
>have partitioned, reformatted, and installed a new
>MBR ???
>
>Is there a way to force a reinstall of the MBR using
>grub in linux rescue to be sure so that I can save
>2+ hours of reinstall?
>
>Thanks,
>Dan
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Chris Kloiber [mailto:ckloiber@ckloiber.com]
>Sent: Sunday, May 02, 2004 5:00 PM
>To: For testers of Fedora Core development releases
>Subject: RE: Installation of FC T2: GRUB interactive on 1st
>installandGRUBhang on 2nd install
>
>
>On Mon, 2004-05-03 at 07:57, Daniel B. Thurman wrote:
>
>
>>Hi all,
>>
>>I did a little more researching but nothing gave me any
>>clues to what is going on and why GRUB hangs... I inserted
>>CD1 and ran linux rescue and found:
>>
>>My drives and partitions are:
>>/dev/hda1 /boot (active)
>>/dev/hdb3 /
>>
>>/etc/grub.conf
>># grub.conf generated by anaconda
>>#
>># ... blah, blah...
>>#boot=/dev/hda1
>>default=0
>>timeout=10
>>splashimage=(hd0,0)/grub/splash.xpm.gz
>>title Fedora Core (2.6.3-2.1.253.2.1)
>> root (hd0,0)
>> kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.3-2.1.253.2.1 ro root=LABEL=/ rhgb
>> initrd /initrd-2.6.3-2.1.253.2.1.img
>>
>>The above configuration file is correct, so... why
>>is GRUB hanging when starting up?
>>
>>All I get on a boot up is all the usual pc bootup text,
>>then after that a cleared screen with a black background
>>and 4 characters in white:
>>
>>GRUB[]
>>
>>where [] is the block-cursor.
>>
>>Best regards,
>>Dan
>>
>>
>
>#boot=/dev/hda1
>
>I would guess that you have an older grub installed in /dev/hda that
>does not know where your current system is installed. So it's never
>getting as far as the grub in /dev/hda1.
>
>
>
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where is Juk?
by Kepa Lyman
Juk is the quasi-itunes equiv for KDE. When I installed test2 w/ kde, there
was no Juk included, it's not in /usr/bin, and the kde site says it's part of
the kde multimedia base package. How do I install it? Did I miss something
on the initial install?
thanks,
Kepa
20 years, 1 month
RE: Installation of FCT2: GRUB interactive on 1st install and GRUBhangs on 2nd install
by Dan Thurman
Hi all,
Sigh... the 3rd time is a charm? Unfortunately not. I took all
the defaults. FCT2 does NOT like Linux Systems 501. Sheesh.
I think I am going back to RH/debian unless someone has a brilliant
idea what the jeepers is going on and tell me how to fix this.
Dan
-----Original Message-----
From: Daniel B. Thurman
Sent: Sunday, May 02, 2004 8:59 PM
To: For testers of Fedora Core development releases
Subject: RE: Installation of FCT2: GRUB interactive on 1st install and
GRUBhangs on 2nd install
Hi,
Yes, I did that. It did not work. I am re-installing for the third
time taking all of the fedora defaults (it sets the paritions of
MBR to /dev/hda, /boot to /dev/hda1, / and swap to /hdb1 and I manually
selected the packages for server setup. Lets see how that flys....
I noticed tho, that grub-install and grub (interactive) NEVER touches
the /boot/grub.conf file... hmmmmm. So if your grub.conf is missing
or corrupted... oh gosh darn, too bad.
Note: previously I fiddled with the paritions and noticed that the
difference
is that / was on /dev/hdb3 parition with no active set and the default
suggested
/ is on /dev/hdb1, with active partition set. I took the suggested
/boot to be
/dev/hda1 with MBR for /dev/hda (so, I always took the default). I am
wondering
if the / partition *has* to be in the first partition of any drive and
set to active
as I know that /boot has to be the first partition and set to active. I
thought
that / parition can be anywhere it wants to be.
Sheesh, I spent all day Sat/Sun and getting nowhere with FCT2!
Bad-Karma day I suppose.
Dan
-----Original Message-----
From: Chuck Mead [mailto:csm@moongroup.com]
Sent: Sunday, May 02, 2004 8:07 PM
To: For testers of Fedora Core development releases
Subject: Re: Installation of FC T2: GRUB interactive on1st
installandGRUBhangon 2nd install
Daniel B. Thurman wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I tried EVERYTHING from grub-install, to interactive grub
> so something is very wrong and I am unable to understand
> it. The grub.conf file is correct, the MBR is written
> on the same drive as the /boot (although / is on a different
> drive, non-active parition) so I have no idea what the problem
> is. Heck, I have installed RH MANY times with no problems,
> so why is FCT2 failing for me?
>
> Any ideas???
Does it boot to this:
grub>
and then stop?
If so you can try this...
Type the following at the grub prompt:
root (hd0,0) <then hit enter>
setup (hd0) <then hit enter>
If you get no errors then you can reboot and see if it works.
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Re: [Core2Test3] Hard disk installation
by David Lerner
Stefan Lecho <stlecho(a)yahoo.com> wrote:
> After booting from the first installation CD and
> selecting harddisk as installation source, the
> following message is generated: "The Fedora Core
> installation tree in that directory does not seem to
> match your boot media."
>
> I've copied the downloaded iso images to a FAT32
> partition and selected that as installation source.
> How should the installation tree look like?
>
The partition should contain the .iso files, not copies of the contents
of these files. The may be in a directory such as FC2-test3-binary-i386.
Sorry if my earlier post suggested otherwise.
I tried this with an ext2 partition where I had originally downloaded
the images. The loader paused for about 7 seconds before continuing with
the install.
Dave
20 years, 1 month
RE: Installation of FC T2: GRUB interactive on 1st installandGRUBhang on 2nd install
by Dan Thurman
Hi,
Oh wow... that would imply that I would have to manually
scrub the hda drive and reinstall? I did previously had
RH9 on it and when I installed the FCT2, I did a new
install on it... you would think that the FC should
have partitioned, reformatted, and installed a new
MBR ???
Is there a way to force a reinstall of the MBR using
grub in linux rescue to be sure so that I can save
2+ hours of reinstall?
Thanks,
Dan
-----Original Message-----
From: Chris Kloiber [mailto:ckloiber@ckloiber.com]
Sent: Sunday, May 02, 2004 5:00 PM
To: For testers of Fedora Core development releases
Subject: RE: Installation of FC T2: GRUB interactive on 1st
installandGRUBhang on 2nd install
On Mon, 2004-05-03 at 07:57, Daniel B. Thurman wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I did a little more researching but nothing gave me any
> clues to what is going on and why GRUB hangs... I inserted
> CD1 and ran linux rescue and found:
>
> My drives and partitions are:
> /dev/hda1 /boot (active)
> /dev/hdb3 /
>
> /etc/grub.conf
> # grub.conf generated by anaconda
> #
> # ... blah, blah...
> #boot=/dev/hda1
> default=0
> timeout=10
> splashimage=(hd0,0)/grub/splash.xpm.gz
> title Fedora Core (2.6.3-2.1.253.2.1)
> root (hd0,0)
> kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.3-2.1.253.2.1 ro root=LABEL=/ rhgb
> initrd /initrd-2.6.3-2.1.253.2.1.img
>
> The above configuration file is correct, so... why
> is GRUB hanging when starting up?
>
> All I get on a boot up is all the usual pc bootup text,
> then after that a cleared screen with a black background
> and 4 characters in white:
>
> GRUB[]
>
> where [] is the block-cursor.
>
> Best regards,
> Dan
#boot=/dev/hda1
I would guess that you have an older grub installed in /dev/hda that
does not know where your current system is installed. So it's never
getting as far as the grub in /dev/hda1.
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Burning Disk 1
by Bob Gill
Hi. I recently downloaded Fedora Core 2 test3 for testing. I checked
all of the files I downloaded with md5checksum and all came out ok. The
problem I have is burning the software from disk 1. Disks 2,3 and 4 all
burned successfully, and checksums for the disks are ok. I burned disk1
onto a 650MB CDRW using cdrecord -v -v -v -v -speed=4 -dev=/dev/cdrom1
-blank=fast -overburn FC2-test3-i386-disc1.iso. Checksum fails. I've
used different CDRW disks, and 2 CDR (700MB) disks, with all
burns/checksums bad. I can go back and burn 650MB of other data to the
CDRW disk without problems. Is there something special that I have to
do to burn disk1? I'm currently running FC1 updated with yum, and
Kernel 2.6.6-rc3-bk3. I have also installed hotplug/udev (without
problems). I understand that the disk1 iso might not fit on a 650MB
CDRW, but after 2 bad burns on CDR, I'm asking questions. The error
message I get when the burn dies is:
[root@localhost temp]# cdrecord -v -speed=4 -blank=fast -overburn
-dev=/dev/cdrom1 FC2-test3-i386-disc1.iso
Cdrecord-Clone 2.01a19 (i686-redhat-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2003 J
rg Schilling
TOC Type: 1 = CD-ROM
scsidev: '/dev/cdrom1'
devname: '/dev/cdrom1'
scsibus: -2 target: -2 lun: -2
Warning: Open by 'devname' is unintentional and not supported.
Linux sg driver version: 3.5.27
Using libscg version 'schily-0.7'
cdrecord: Warning: using inofficial libscg transport code version
(schily - Red Hat-scsi-linux-sg.c-1.75-RH '@(#)scsi-linux-sg.c
1.75 02/10/21 Copyright 1997 J. Schilling').
SCSI buffer size: 64512
atapi: 1
Device type : Removable CD-ROM
Version : 0
Response Format: 1
Vendor_info : 'MITSUMI '
Identifikation : 'CR-4804TE '
Revision : '2.4C'
Device seems to be: Philips CDD-522.
Using generic SCSI-3/mmc CD-R/CD-RW driver (mmc_cdr).
Driver flags : MMC SWABAUDIO
Supported modes: TAO PACKET RAW/R16 RAW/R96R
Drive buf size : 1343488 = 1312 KB
FIFO size : 4194304 = 4096 KB
Track 01: data 631 MB
Total size: 725 MB (71:53.00) = 323475 sectors
Lout start: 725 MB (71:55/00) = 323475 sectors
Current Secsize: 2048
ATIP info from disk:
Indicated writing power: 5
Is not unrestricted
Is not erasable
Disk sub type: Medium Type A, high Beta category (A+) (3)
ATIP start of lead in: -11634 (97:26/66)
ATIP start of lead out: 359849 (79:59/74)
Disk type: Short strategy type (Phthalocyanine or similar)
Manuf. index: 3
Manufacturer: CMC Magnetics Corporation
Blocks total: 359849 Blocks current: 359849 Blocks remaining: 36374
Starting to write CD/DVD at speed 4 in real TAO mode for single session.
Last chance to quit, starting real write 0 seconds. Operation starts.
Waiting for reader process to fill input buffer ... input buffer ready.
Performing OPC...
Starting new track at sector: 0
Track 01: 431 of 631 MB written (fifo 100%) [buf 99%]
4.0x.cdrecord: Success. write_g1: scsi sendcmd: no error
CDB: 2A 00 00 03 5F 47 00 00 1F 00
status: 0x2 (CHECK CONDITION)
Sense Bytes: 70 00 05 00 00 00 00 0A 00 00 00 00 24 00 00 00
Sense Key: 0x5 Illegal Request, Segment 0
Sense Code: 0x24 Qual 0x00 (invalid field in cdb) Fru 0x0
Sense flags: Blk 0 (not valid)
resid: 63488
cmd finished after 0.401s timeout 40s
write track data: error after 452605952 bytes
cdrecord: A write error occured.
cdrecord: Please properly read the error message above.
Writing time: 748.354s
Average write speed 5.8x.
Min drive buffer fill was 94%
Fixating...
Fixating time: 62.244s
cdrecord: fifo had 7193 puts and 7130 gets.
cdrecord: fifo was 0 times empty and 7084 times full, min fill was 95%.
[root@localhost temp]# df Filesystem 1K-blocks Used
Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/hda3 18625588 8088720 9590736 46% /
/dev/hda1 29249 19443 8296 71% /boot
none 518664 0 518664 0% /dev/shm
/dev/hdb1 80033348 59618600 20414748 75% /data
/dev/sdb1 134210908 44605708 89605200 34% /mnt/fire
/dev/sda1 134210908 30327052 103883856 23% /mnt/fire2
[root@localhost temp]# eject /mnt/cdrom1
[root@localhost temp]# mount /mnt/cdrom1
df
[root@localhost temp]# df
Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/hda3 18625588 8088720 9590736 46% /
/dev/hda1 29249 19443 8296 71% /boot
none 518664 0 518664 0% /dev/shm
/dev/hdb1 80033348 59618600 20414748 75% /data
/dev/sdb1 134210908 44605708 89605200 34% /mnt/fire
/dev/sda1 134210908 30327052 103883856 23% /mnt/fire2
/dev/cdrom1 646946 646946 0 100% /mnt/cdrom1
4ae4c6449d68933309968ad5c545c668 FC2-test3-i386-disc1.iso
a4966b24af192952de3016d96153323f FC2-test3-i386-disc2.iso
83e93f40e6b945e5a2c8cc04772ab085 FC2-test3-i386-disc3.iso
baba457bb27a7e9ed1a9832f6d1659cf FC2-test3-i386-disc4.iso
-----------------------------------------------------------
cdrecord -prcap -dev=/dev/cdrom1 shows:
Maximum read speed: 4234 kB/s (CD 24x, DVD 3x)
Maximum write speed: 706 kB/s (CD 4x, DVD 0x)
Buffer size in KB: 2048
(so I can write at 4x without problems). The writer is (actually) an HP
CD-writer Plus.
Thanks,
Bob
20 years, 1 month
Re: FC2T3 on emachines 6805 laptop
by Kenny Speer
Uh, just realized I sent you the wrong xorg.conf. Do NOT use the
.backup instead use the xorg.conf I sent but change ati->radeon in the
Device section. Sorry about that.
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