Fwd: Announcing the release of Fedora Core 3

[Kevin O'Gorman]

I tried installing FC3 today, and everything looked smooth until the
reboot at the end.
All my screen showed was "GRUB", and I couldn't get anything to happen
beyond that.
I used rescue to go back to the previous release, which used LILO.  I
understand LILO,
so I'm okay there.  It was a whim to try grub on this new thing, and I
was (foolishly?)
assuming that the installer would do The Right Thing(TM).

The new root partition was to be /dev/hdb7 -- I didn't think that
should be a great
stretch.  Silly me.

If I do this again, I guess I'd better know some stuff about grub.
Where's the best
place to learn?

++ kevin


On Tue, 9 Nov 2004 15:00:42 -0500 (EST), Net Llama!
<netllama at linux-sxs.org> wrote:
> On Tue, 9 Nov 2004, Bill Campbell wrote:
> 
> 
> > On Tue, Nov 09, 2004, Net Llama! wrote:
> > >On Tue, 9 Nov 2004, James McDonald wrote:
> > >> First person onlist that upgrades can they let us know how the Xorg release
> > >> performs? And which chipset? I'm using NVidia
> > >
> > >Looks like i win that prize.  I've successfully upgraded from FC2 to FC3
> > >on two boxes:
> > >
> > >0) An old workstation that has an Intel i810 mobo with i810 graphics.
> > >Unfortunately, something is wonky with the new version of X and this i810
> > >where the graphics are bleeding all over the screen whenever i move a
> > >window.
> >
> > SuSE 9.2 Professional with xorg-x11-6.8.1 is working OK here on a system
> > with on-board SiS 660 chipset.  I haven't tried it on anything yet with a
> > real graphics card.
> 
> OK, i got this fixed.  Per this article on Google:
> http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&c2coff=1&safe=off&frame=right&th=390ccd6e5262c687&seekm=2Y3I3-Rx-23%40gated-at.bofh.it#link3
> I added the following options to the 'Device' section of xorg.conf:
> 
> Option "XaaNoScanlineCPUToScreenColorExpandFill" "true"
> Option "XaaNoSolidFillRect" "true"
> Option "XaaNoScreenToScreenCopy" "true"
> Option "XaaNoMono8x8PatternFillRect" "true"
> 
> then restarted X, and life is good again.
> 
> > >1) An old IBM T20 laptop, with S3 Inc. SuperSavage video. All seems to be
> > >working ok here.
> >
> > I'll see your ``old'' T20 and raise you a ThinkPad 600.  I just installed
> > SuSE 9.2 Professional on the ThinkPad a couple of days ago, and it seems to
> > be working fine (although it doesn't recognize the sound on it).  It's
> > running xorg-x11-6.8.1.
> 
> FC3 has xorg-x11-6.8.1-12
> 
> 
> 
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