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Matt Cook | 1 Dec 2006 19:19

Re: Fedora Video Card Problem

It's an ATI Radeon x1600 Pro, and it is Fedora Core 6 i386

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Ted Gervais | 1 Dec 2006 01:06
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Re: Can't get GRUB installed.

On Thu, 2006-11-30 at 15:56 -0700, Craig White wrote:
> On Thu, 2006-11-30 at 18:46 -0400, Ted Gervais wrote:
> > I am having trouble booting up core6.  I installed it earlier today and 
> > after trying to find a way to get Grub to work I formatted the drive and 
> > started over.
> > 
> > Now I am back at the same prompt with no core6 running.  Grub does not 
> > appear and the result is - Windows comes up rather than linux.
> > 
> > I am totally lost now.  There is no sign at all that there is even Linux 
> > installed on this computer, and yet I just took off centos which was 
> > working fine and it used grub as its windows manager.
> > 
> > I have two harddrives (hda and hdb).
> > HDA is for Windows and HDB for Linux.
> > 
> > That is how it was with centos and previous versions of linux such as 
> > core5.  It always worked fine.
> > Now I get nothing when I reboot the machine other than windows..
> > 
> > What am I overlooking?  And is there a way that I can bring up this 
> > installed version of Fedora (core6) using the rescue disk?  If this is 
> > possible what would be the boot line to get things running?
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> try booting the FC-6 Installation Disc 1 or the rescue CD and typing at
> boot prompt...
> 
> linux rescue

Did that..
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Gene Heskett | 1 Dec 2006 01:13
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Re: Fedora Core Version to install...

On Thursday 30 November 2006 18:45, Rob Andrews wrote:
>On 29-Nov-2006 17:14.13 (GMT), James Kosin wrote:
> > Fedora Core is basically the TESTBED of the future of RedHat
> > technology.  If you wanted safe/stable/etc get RHEL
> > http://www.redhat.com/rhel/
>
>One wonders how many times people have to say "FEDORA IS NOT A TESTBED
> FOR RHEL" before people stop saying that it is.
>
Maybe that is because that *is* what it is?  Its also bug finder par 
excellent.  By the time we've beat on something for 6 months to a year, 
there is a lot better feel for what the user wants, so in addition to the 
blatant bug & security fixes we get, RHEL gets the feature enhancements 
we wanted too but rarely get.  Feature enhancements are always "for the 
next release" it seems.

Please don't take me as an ungrateful wretch, I'm well aware that what we 
expected from any distro was responsive support, but that for RH to be a 
viable business, that sort of support must be sold rather than given 
away.  And that to protect that support contract sale, a line must be 
drawn that occasionally seems pretty arbitrary.

But we are, at the same time, free to make noise about things when it 
seems too unjust.  I guess that's the reason freshrpms, atrpms and livna 
have a place in the grand scheme of things isn't it?

Overall, I think it works fairly well for all concerned.

One old farts $0.02, please adjust for inflation since my birthday back 
in '34. :)
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Matthew Saltzman | 1 Dec 2006 01:19

Re: fc6 / windows xp dual-boot system

On Thu, 30 Nov 2006, Jim Cornette wrote:

> Don Raikes wrote:
>> Ok, the fdisk -l /dev/sda shows:
>> 
>> 
>> Disk /dev/sda: 250.0 GB, 250059350016 bytes
>> 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 30401 cylinders
>> Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
>> 
>>    Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
>> /dev/sda1   *         711       17538   135170910    7  HPFS/NTFS
>> /dev/sda2               1         710     5703043+   b  W95 FAT32
>> /dev/sda3           17539       29649    97281607+  83  Linux
>> /dev/sda4           29650       30401     6040440    5  Extended
>> /dev/sda5           29650       30388     5935986   82  Linux swap / 
>> Solaris
>> 
>> Partition table entries are not in disk order
>
> I agree with the comment from Scott below. The starting partition is 
> /dev/sda2 (1 through 710) but for some reason fdisk wants to call the (711 
> through 17538) /dev/sda1.
>
> This output at least is easier for me than the Partition magic which I never 
> used before.

I haven't been following this thread, so I don't know what the OP's issue 
was, but...
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Vini Engel | 1 Dec 2006 01:19

Cursor problems when running FC6 with Radeon driver in dual head mode.

Hi guys,

I was wondering if anyone is having any cursor problems when running FC6 with 
two monitors. I have a Dell machine with an ATI Radeon dual port card that is 
having some strange issues when I move the mouse cursor across to the screen 
two.

The cursor doesn't change when it is on the second screen, for example if I 
move it quickly from screen one to screen two and on screen one I was using a 
text editor the cursor on screen two will be a text editor's cursor and will 
never become a pointer nor any other type of cursor. If I move it over some 
part of a window where we would expect the cursor to change it won't change. 

I am at this moment using a driver provided by ATI but I have used the radeon 
driver that comes with FC6 and I have the exact same problem. I also tried 
using "SWcursor On" in my xorg.conf, this fixes the problem but creates 
another one. When I move the mouse cursor anywhere on any screen it leaves a 
trace of dirty on the screen as if I was moving a square and so my screen 
becomes full of squares.

I am running xorg-x11-server-Xorg-1.1.1-47.fc6 and kernel 2.6.18-1.2849.fc6. 
My xorg config is simple and I am running xinerama.

If anyone is having the same issue and would like to discuss this or if you 
even know that could be causing this problem, I would very much like to talk 
to you.

Regards,
Vini
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Timothy Murphy | 1 Dec 2006 01:24
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Re: Can't get GRUB installed.

Ted Gervais wrote:

> I am having trouble booting up core6.  I installed it earlier today and
> after trying to find a way to get Grub to work I formatted the drive and
> started over.
> 
> Now I am back at the same prompt with no core6 running.  Grub does not
> appear and the result is - Windows comes up rather than linux.
> 
> I am totally lost now.  There is no sign at all that there is even Linux
> installed on this computer, and yet I just took off centos which was
> working fine and it used grub as its windows manager.
> 
> I have two harddrives (hda and hdb).
> HDA is for Windows and HDB for Linux.
> 
> That is how it was with centos and previous versions of linux such as
> core5.  It always worked fine.
> Now I get nothing when I reboot the machine other than windows..
> 
> What am I overlooking?  And is there a way that I can bring up this
> installed version of Fedora (core6) using the rescue disk?  If this is
> possible what would be the boot line to get things running?

You haven't said how you tried to get grub installed,
in particular where you installed it.
Perhaps you installed in on /dev/hdb
and your machine is looking for its bootloader on /dev/hda .
If so, you could try telling your BIOS to look at hdb first.
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Don Raikes | 1 Dec 2006 01:23
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RE: fc6 / windows xp dual-boot system

Thanks for everyone's help. 
I had to re-install fc6 due to some other problems, but now I have the dual boot working.

Windows xp is located at (hd0,0) and fc6 is at (hd0,2).

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Subject: Re: fc6 / windows xp dual-boot system

Don Raikes wrote:
> Ok, the fdisk -l /dev/sda shows:
>
>
> Disk /dev/sda: 250.0 GB, 250059350016 bytes
> 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 30401 cylinders
> Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
>
>    Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
> /dev/sda1   *         711       17538   135170910    7  HPFS/NTFS
> /dev/sda2               1         710     5703043+   b  W95 FAT32
> /dev/sda3           17539       29649    97281607+  83  Linux
> /dev/sda4           29650       30401     6040440    5  Extended
> /dev/sda5           29650       30388     5935986   82  Linux swap / Solaris
>
> Partition table entries are not in disk order

I agree with the comment from Scott below. The starting partition is
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Timothy Murphy | 1 Dec 2006 01:28
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RE: fc6 / windows xp dual-boot system

Don Raikes wrote:

> Ok, the fdisk -l /dev/sda shows:
> 
> 
> Disk /dev/sda: 250.0 GB, 250059350016 bytes
> 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 30401 cylinders
> Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
> 
>    Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
> /dev/sda1   *         711       17538   135170910    7  HPFS/NTFS
> /dev/sda2               1         710     5703043+   b  W95 FAT32
> /dev/sda3           17539       29649    97281607+  83  Linux
> /dev/sda4           29650       30401     6040440    5  Extended
> /dev/sda5           29650       30388     5935986   82  Linux swap /
> Solaris
> 
> Partition table entries are not in disk order

Did you try editing your /etc/grub.conf to give (hd0,0) for Windows?

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Timothy Murphy | 1 Dec 2006 01:34
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Re: grub/core6

Ted Gervais wrote:

>>What does you BIOS say about the drives?
> 
> 
> All it says is that the particular drive on which grub is to be installed,
> that it does not have any corresponding BIOS drive.
> I don't know what else to say??

I don't understand your answer.
Isn't there a line in your BIOS setup
giving the order in which it looks at disks, say "A,C,D"?

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Ted Gervais | 1 Dec 2006 01:39
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Re: Can't get GRUB installed.

At 12:24 AM 12/1/2006 +0000, you wrote:

-snip>-

>You haven't said how you tried to get grub installed,
>in particular where you installed it.
>Perhaps you installed in on /dev/hdb
>and your machine is looking for its bootloader on /dev/hda .
>If so, you could try telling your BIOS to look at hdb first.

Sorry. I did mention this in another message but should have carried that 
info into this thread as well.
Just frustrated I guess.  But I did have it installed on /dev/hda as fedora 
suggested and that failed to work.
Centos suggested the same thing and grub works fine with Centos.  ??

>Also you could try running your first Fedora CD in rescue mode
>(as explained I believe when you put the CD in),
>and use fdisk to look at your disks.
>I must admit I prefer to use Knoppix for this kind of thing;
>why not download Knoppix to a CD and see what it finds?

Well - everything is installed on the hard drive.  I am certain of 
that.  But for some reason fedora core6 will not install grub on this machine.
And previously, I had core5 on here (hdb) and it worked fine.  In fact I 
was impresssed with it and now am wondering why I should upgrade?

So, there has to be  a reason why fedora won't install grub on this 
machine.  But at the moment I am totally lost for any reason why it won't 
install.
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