Fwd: Announcing the release of Fedora Core 3

[Ken Moffat]

Kevin O'Gorman wrote:

>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:
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>>On Tue, 9 Nov 2004, Bill Campbell wrote:
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>>>On Tue, Nov 09, 2004, Net Llama! wrote:
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>>>>On Tue, 9 Nov 2004, James McDonald wrote:
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>>>>
>>>>>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.
>>
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>>>>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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>>Lonni J Friedman                                netllama at linux-sxs.org
>>Linux Step-by-step & TyGeMo                  http://netllama.ipfox.com
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hdb7 should be fine. Maybe grub did not install properly, or installed 
to the partition instead of the mbr. I've used it for years without 
problem. One advantage of grub is you don't need to rerun it (as 
/sbin/lilo) when you change the configuration. I first started using it 
because it didn't suffer the 1024sector limit as did lilo. (a few years 
ago). If you have a boot floppy for you new install, you could install 
grub manually.

grub-install /dev/hd0

is close to what you want, but I'd read some info and check the syntax; 
haven't used it for some time.



-- 
ken