frightenedbylinux

Hi, New here as well as to Linux. Trying to get FC4 working for last 72hours, without much luck. I have Dell 2350 (preinstalled with WinXP), with Nvdia graphics card and 1905 LCD monitor (connected using DVI). While installing FC, it could not recognize USB ports and, parllel port, so following the advices on the net I did a 'linux noprobe' installation. After the installation, GRUB was not working, following the advice in another thread here, did grub-install -- recheck /dev/hda. GRUB shows up now, but there is problem during booting, it shows some numbers and halts. I mean, even alt-ctrl-del does not work. The last messages I get is code 9c 3c c0 89 ....... some more numbers then, /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit: line/65 : 911 segmentation fault modprobe $1>/dev/null2>$1 network Could any of you guys give me some light on my problem. thanks. (glad that did not mess up the XP yet)

Ok. Removed Fedora completely. Got Mepis working from harddisk. GRUB did not recognize Windows in the first install, did so in the second install though. Don't know what was wrong first time. Thanks for your time.

Thanks. Tried to install Mepis to the harddrive. I lost my boot to Windows option because of this. Have to reinstall Fedora, to get the Windows boot option back. Also, Mepis itslef did not boot from harddisk. But, I did not pay much attention to that, and did the installation without much prepartion. Will get back to this later. I actually forgot at what speed I burned them. But I am pretty sure it's more than 4x/8x. I mean it took only few minutes to get them burned (I love the NEC 3520). I skipped the media checkduring the installation, will do that next time. Good to know the burn speed issue of iso files.

No man, noapic did not work. I tried to install it again, without 'noprobe' it's not possible (played with the other options, 'nousb', 'noparport', 'skipdde'). With 'noprobe', if I select the Broadcom 4400 driver (that's my NIC driver) from the lists it will halt. The scenario is like this, to get the installation done I have to select 'noprobe' and have to skip adding the drivers. Then after installation it wont boot as it can't detect/configure the network I installed MEPIS live cd. It's working without any trouble. Actually, I am posting this from MEPIS. I am impressed with this one. However, it looks like I have to pay to get a harddisk installation done with root access. Thanks for your helps throughout. I am not sure what to do with Fedora. Spent like one whole week on this.

Thanks again. No, it did not work I get Error message 15: File not found Press any key to continue By any chance could it be the network configuration, the last line where it halts says 'network' (as shown in the first post).

Thanks for the reply. Please see below. Originally posted by danleff: Quote: .... It looks like you have been able to get in FC4 to install grub to the MBR, probably via rescue mode from the cd? yes. 'linux rescue noprobe' command. Quote: Get into FC4 and type the following at a console as root user; df -h (hit the enter key) Post what comes back as the root filesystem, usually the first entry that shows the root marker /. Filesystem...........Size ..........Mounted as /dev/hda5.........5.7G............../ /dev/hda3............479M........../boot /dev/hda6............2.0G......../mnt/transfer The last one is FAT system. Also there are three more (from fdisk -l command output) : hda1 - Dell Utility; hda2 - NTFS and hda7 - Linux Swap/Soalris Quote: If possible, get into the /boot/grub/menu.lst file and post where grub is pointing to the kernel to boot. You will see an entry like; kernel (hd0,1) /boot/vmlinuz........ or an entry after the title; root (hd0,1) Here is the excerpt... root (hd0,2) kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.11-1.1369_FC4 ro root =LABEL=/ hda=58168,16,63 rhgb quiet initrd /initrd-2.6.11-1.1269_FC4.img title Win XP rootnoverify (hd0,1) chainloader +1 Quote: Good thing that XP still works. I hope that you have your recovery cds? Yah. (thank God) Need to mention one more thing, I tried Solaris first, which did not work out. Now, the fdisk command shows the swap partition as hda7 - Linx Swap/Solaris. I remember formatting as ext3 during installation. Hope nothing wrong here.