thebrookster

I am attempting to add my Windows XP installation to Grub. I have attempted to add it using the relevant wixard in mcc, however when I tried to boot into Windows it just told me that it was not a bootable disk. Having researched this online, I have become even more confused, as everything I have found goes on about chainloaders, which I am fairly certain that I have never used before when faced with a similar problem. The gist of my system is that I have Mandriva installed on my Primary Master HDD, I have a Primary Slave HDD which contains only files, and I have Windows installed onto my SATA drive on partition sda1. (I have two disc drives on the Secondary IDE controller.) What code do I need to enter into menu.lst to boot XP (which is an NTFS partition). Any advice/help given will be much appreciated, Phil P.S Grub is installed onto the MBR of the Primary Master HDD

No, I am using the Analog connector, however if I can set the system up properly it is my intention to dual screen using both connectors (Iknow that this works in Windows, not tried it before in Linux).

Well, I now typing this reply from Mandriva 2007!! Changing the driver from 'nv' to 'vesa' has worked. My next task is to find out why both 'nv' and the Mandriva nvidia drivers did not work.

Ok, I have checked my xorg.conf file, and it is already set to use the 'nv' driver, however when I try to do a 'startx' command, the screen just goes black. It is not going out of range at all. Once the screen has gone black I cannot do anything with the PC, I cannot even select a different screen/command prompt. I have tried using CTRL+ALT+BACKSPACE to restart xserver to no avail.

Yeah, I have used the official nVidia drivers myself when I was running 2006. Unfortunately it has been a while since I had to do that, so I would be extremely grateful if someone could possibly post some fairly comprehensive instructions on how to install this particular driver. ( I will be doing a urpme dkms.. etc first). I am running with no xserver at all, and I cannot remember any of the command line stuff. I would also be very grateful if someone could tell me where to find various systems files that will be needed (including how to access the driver file which will be on a cd in drive hdc). Many thanks for help given, Phil

Ok, I have followed the instructions, and not used the nVidia's own driver but used Mandriva's instead. It appears to download what it requires, and gets sets of on the install. It then displays the following error message: Error! Your kernel source for kernel 2.6.17-5mdv cannot be founf at /lib/modules/2.6.17-5mdv/build or /lib/modules/2.6.17-5mdv/source. You can use the --kernelsourcedir option to tell DKMS where it's located. Error! Could not locate nvidia.ko.gz for module nvidia in the DKMS tree. You must run a dkms build for kernel 2.6.17-5mdv (x86_64) first. What is the problem here, and how do I solve it. Is this a case that I have told it that I have the wrong kernel, or am I missing files? Can this be solved by installing/updating the kernel? The other problem that I appear to have is that Mandriva has never yet correctly recognised my graphics card. Is this a problem? My apologies about lumbaring you guys with all these queries, however it has been a while since I last used Linux in any form, and my once meagre knowledge has become very rusty over time :D Phil

Yes, my installation goes fine, it is on the reboot that it cannot get past Grub. I have already played around with the various entries for grub, and had tried it with every possible combination of apic=ht, napic and nolapic to no success. However, having removed my SATA drive out of the system, and disabled the SATA IDE controller, I have installed again onto an IDE drive and rebooted without a problem. My reading on this tells me that it was possibly the SATA controller that is causing problems. Is there a way past this problem, or am I best advised to replace my motherboard with a model that is more compliant with linux?? Anyway, now that I have been able to reboot into Mandriva, my problem with my graphics card has re-appeared. My x-server appears to be unable to boot up at all. I have booted up using failsafe and tried startx, and according to information that appears I have no Device section in my xorg.conf file. This has happened with both my newer graphics card (GeForce 6600GT) and my older card (GeForce FX5500). Why?? I shall attempt to install the correct nVidia driver of their website, and see if that makes a difference.

Unfortunately, having followed the instructions I am still getting stuck at the same point on bootup. Having attempted to apply my brain to the matter, it has dawned upon me that I had a running installation of Mandriva 2006 on nearly this setup, the only difference being that I did not have a SATA HDD at that point. My next plan of attack is to try installing onto an IDE HDD with my SATA drive unplugged. I shall report back the results when I have done so. If anyone could possible confirm whether or not this likely to be problem, and/or suggest other methods of attack I shall be extremely grateful. Phil

Hi, I am attempting to install Mandriva 2007 (Free) onto my PC, however I have found some stumbling blocks. My install goes fine until I reach the summary section. When I attempt to configure my graphics card it initially chooses the wrong one, (telling me that my GeForce 6600GT is a GeForce FX series). When I change it to the correct entry, and then follow the wizard through I reach the screen that asks if I wish to test my config now. If I choose yes, my screen goes black and does not change. If I select no, I can continue the installation. Any Ideas here? Second Problem (The major one!!). For some reason or other I cannot get my computer to boot up into a bootloader at all. I have tried both Grub and Lilo, and tried them both with nd without APCI enabled. I have checked my Bios and Plug and Play OS is disabled, and I have attempted the entire install using the no APCI option. The furthest that the PC gets during boot-up in LILO is it will display 'L' with a flashing cursor next to it, and the furthest it has reached with Grub is it will display 'GRUB 1.5' then below tell me that it is loading Grub. My main drive is a SATA drive, and I run two IDE HDD's alongside it with two disc drives. The SATA contains Win XP on the first partition (50Gb), My Docs on the second (for Windows that is) (60Gb), hopefully Mandriva 2007 on the third partition(37Gb) and a swap partition as the last at 1Gb. I have tried playing with the BIOS boot settings for the HDD's, I have unplugged the two IDE HDD's, all to no avail. If anyone could possibly shed some light on to these problems I would be extremely grateful, because if Mandriva 2007 lives up to articles that I have read about it, I may finally have found a version of Linux that will completely replace Windows. :D My System Spec: Asus K8N-E Deluxe Motherboard AMD Athlon 64 3200 2Gb RAM PC3200 Nvidia GeForce 6600 GT graphics card 160Gb SATA HDD 80Gb IDE HDD 40Gb IDE HDD DVD burner (All singing all dancing) CDRW Belkin Wireless Card

Many thanks, altho I have a couple of kernels I only use one, so this option worked. Scarecrow, you mention that it is possible to create a small /boot partition, just how difficult is this. Are there any instructions on the web anywhere telling me how to do this, as I may give it a try at some point. I have a funny feeling it may make life easier in the long term. :P

I am currently having some issues with Grub. I am trying to triple-boot Win XP, FC5 and Mandriva 2006, all from one HDD. I initially installed Win XP, then installed Mandriva. Mandriva overwrote the MBR with Grub, which worked satisfactorily. I then installed FC5, and told it to install its own Grub bootloader. Unfortunately it now boots up into Windows and Fedora quite happily, but when I try to boot into Mandriva it keeps on coming up with Kernel Panic messages. I have tried various alterations of grub.conf with no success. This is the contents of my grub.conf file in Fedora: # grub.conf generated by anaconda # # Note that you do not have to rerun grub after making changes to this file # NOTICE: You do not have a /boot partition. This means that # all kernel and initrd paths are relative to /, eg. # root (hd0,2) # kernel /boot/vmlinuz-version ro root=/dev/hda3 # initrd /boot/initrd-version.img #boot=/dev/hda default=2 timeout=5 splashimage=(hd0,2)/boot/grub/splash.xpm.gz hiddenmenu title Fedora Core (2.6.16-1.2122_FC5) root (hd0,2) kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.16-1.2122_FC5 ro root=LABEL=/ rhgb quiet initrd /boot/initrd-2.6.16-1.2122_FC5.img title Fedora Core (2.6.15-1.2054_FC5) root (hd0,2) kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.15-1.2054_FC5 ro root=LABEL=/ rhgb quiet initrd /boot/initrd-2.6.15-1.2054_FC5.img title Mandriva 2006 root (hd0,4) kernel (hd0,4)/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.12-22mdk-i686-up-4GB initrd (hd0,4)/boot/initrd-2.6.12-22mdk-i686-up-4GB.img title Windows XP rootnoverify (hd0,0) chainloader +1 If anyone can offer me any help I would be extremely grateful, as I would much rather have Mandriva available then XP! :P Many thanks in Advance.

Does anyone know of a driver for the Canon i6500? I have one of these, and it is a bit of a bore to have to boot into windows whenever I wish to use it. I am using Mandriva 2006 32 bit. Any help would be appreciated.

Cheers guys, I will have a go at it tonight when I get back into the house. thebrookster

Hi, am trying to install KDE 3.5.1 int Mandriva 2006. I have uninstalled kde 3.4.2, which was my previous version. However, when I try to download obtain the newer packages (I have both thacs rpm and seer os souls rpm as sources, along with contrib, main, plf, non freeplf and upgrade) I get a message coming up sayng: Segmentation Fault (core dumped) What is happening here, and how can I get around it? My thanks in advance to anyone who can help, thebrookster

Have now re-installed xorg, ran the xorgconfig tool then XFdrake, and everything now works!! Except Thunderbird, but that is a work in progress. Thank You Very Much!!!!!! thebrookster