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I went into bios and changed the boot order. When I booted up I got LILO! now that I'm in Mandriva I see it has my drives reversed (hda is my data drive mentioned above and hde is my windows drive) For now, since it works I'm going to leave everything the way it is. (actually I haven't tried booting to windows through LILO yet, so I hope that works!)
Thanks for the tip, It got me going in the right direction!
Ken
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hde is the 60G data drive. Mandrake has always doen that when I install it. Don't know why. Vista was on the drive I installed Linux to. It's boot.ini should have been taken care of when I did the fixboot in XP. But you never know! :) I'll try out your suggestion in the morning and see what happens.
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Paul
Embrace your what-ness?!?!?
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Here's the situatiuon.
I had XP sp2 and mandriva 10.1 Installed Dual boot on my comp. NO problems.
I decided to try out Vista beta2 and since I need XP for school I decided to take off mandy and install Vista there. All went well. I found no good reason to keep Vista (just a fancier and more annoying XP) So I got rid of that and used XP's recovery console to fixmbr and fixboot.
Now I'm installing Mandriva 2006 powerpack From DVD. It installs fine no errors at all. I used Lilo graphical. (no errors reported when it installed) when the install was done I rebooted and the computer went directly to XP, no LILO at all.
So I used the rescue mode on the DVD to re-install lilo. That gave me errors so I mounted and chroot /mnt and ran LILO manually. The only error (warning) I got was about /proc/partitions not existing. (because I haven't actually booted into my install yet) rebooted, and still no lilo.
I tried doing a dummy upgrade with no better succes.
so I did it again only this time using GRUB. Still the same thing. The computer just boots XP NO lilo or Grub.
I know Mandriva installed. I have Ext2IFS installed and can see the Linux drive. It looks like everything is there.
I set the bootloaders to install to /dev/hda and they give me no errors. So it appears they installed but they don't.
This is too weird. I've searched but I can't seem to find any problem like this on the web.
Anybody here have any ideas?
I have 3 HD's a 20G with XP, a 10G with Mandriva and a 60G (fat32) for Data.
here's the lilo.conf I was using
default="linux" boot=/dev/hda map=/boot/map keytable=/boot/us.klt menu-scheme=wb:bw:wb:bw prompt nowarn timeout=100 message=/boot/message image=/boot/vmlinuz label="linux" root=/dev/hdf5 initrd=/boot/initrd.img append=" resume=/dev/hdf1 splash=silent" vga=788 image=/boot/vmlinuz label="linux-nonfb" root=/dev/hdf5 initrd=/boot/initrd.img append=" resume=/dev/hdf1" image=/boot/vmlinuz label="failsafe" root=/dev/hdf5 initrd=/boot/initrd.img append=" failsafe resume=/dev/hdf1" other=/dev/hda1 label="windows" table=/dev/hda other=/dev/hde1 label="windows1" table=/dev/hde map-drive=0x80 to=0x81 map-drive=0x81 to=0x80
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I got it!
When I went inside to unplug the DVD I realized that there was also a PCI controller card that was also in my old system. That was the culprit. I removed that and f1 works fine!
Arctic: the "linux noapic nolapic" did the trick for the install too.
Thank you both for your time!
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Are you using the same CD? Could be a bad download or burn. Only thing I can think of that would follow you to a new machine.
But you say you've tried other distros. Odd...very odd. have you tried both of your cd-roms drives? I noticed you said the dvd-rom was from the previous machine. other than that I can't think of anything.
Yeah, It's super weird! since the only thing that's the same between the two systems is the proc and the one DVD-rom. I'm gonna try disconnecting the drive and try again. Could the proc have anything to do with it? (hope not!)
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First, unplug all usb devices and printers. Then try booting with the following parameters (at the boot-screen press "F1" for advanced options instead of "enter")
Um.... that's the part I'm having problems with! I can't hit F1! That's what locks up the computer.
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Now I really need to figure this out. I stopped using Linux altogether for awhile. Now I'm trying to install LE2005 and am getting IRQ errors during install ("disabling IRQ #17 / nobody cared!"). Which I believe I can solve with acpi=off. Only I still have the same f1 freezing problem.
My hardware has changed:
Gigabyte GA-7N400 Pro2 MB
the same amd XP 2400+ proc
ATI X800XT
onboard nforce sound
1G ddr Mem
the same Samsung DVD-Rom
LG gsa-4163B DVD burner
As an experiment I've tried this with other distros and the same thing happens. (the f1 thing not the IRQ problem)
I've got gentoo running now but I want my Mandy back!
If anyone can help please let me know!
Thanks
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Man! If you want to learn everything there is to learn about linux just try installing these drivers for an AIW 8500!
Your updated SRPM worked beautifuly, thac. TY again!
But it seems there is a bug in the driver that doesn't allow it to recognize one of the five ChipID's for the diff 8500 flavors (Of course it's the one I have) causing a trace/breakpoint trap whenever I tried to run anything having to do with gl. I also had the mtrr overlap bug and some PCI on pin A thing that I still haven't figured out (but it's not affecting anything so I'm not bothering)
for those that need it,
The solve for the mtrr problem is here
had to learn about startup scripts and lilo appends and other stuff for that.
and the ChipID problem is at
Trace/Breakpoint Trap on Radeon-AIW 8500
the last post on the page by JimBeam has step by step instructions on finding and changing an init3 w/a nop in fglrx_dri.so
lotsa fun hex editing and such there!
Well now it works and I'm happy!
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It seems that the fglrx rpm changes the name of libGLcore.a for compatability reasons but does not supply any kind of replacement for it. any ideas?
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Disregard that last post please!
I've just learned about SRPMs and how cool they are! (guess I should have read your post a liile closer. huh?)
I got the fglrx 3.12 from your site, thac.
I've got 3.12 installed now and can get into kde no prob.
the problem now is with 3d accel. I get the following errors in the Xfree log:
(II) Module glx: vendor="The XFree86 Project" compiled for 4.3.99.903, module version = 1.0.0 ABI class: XFree86 Server Extension, version 0.2 (II) Loading sub module "GLcore" (II) LoadModule: "GLcore" (WW) Warning, couldn't open module GLcore (II) UnloadModule: "GLcore" (II) UnloadModule: "glx" (II) Unloading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions/libglx.a (EE) Failed to load module "glx" (a required submodule could not be loaded, 0) AND A LITTLE LATER: (I'm assuming the next two sections are caused by the first problem) (II) fglrx(0): detected XFree86 version: 4.3.99 (WW) fglrx(0): *********************************************** (WW) fglrx(0): * DRI initialization failed! * (WW) fglrx(0): * (maybe driver kernel module missing or bad) * (WW) fglrx(0): * 2D acceleraton available (MMIO) * (WW) fglrx(0): * no 3D acceleration available * (WW) fglrx(0): ********************************************* * AND A LITTLE LATER: Symbol __glXActiveScreens from module /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions/libdri.a is unresolved! Symbol __glXActiveScreens from module /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions/libdri.a is unresolved! Symbol __glXActiveScreens from module /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers/fglrx_drv.o is unresolved!
I'm a little stuck here. But I'm sooo close now :D
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you don't have one for 2.6.3-7 tho oh well
Where's my radeon module. It seems to have dissapeared. how do I get it back?
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Oops! I was gonna leave that info.
Motherboard ecs k7s5a
Proc: amd athlon xp 2400+
vid: ati AIW 8500
Sound: audigy2 platinum
Mem: 512M
Samsung DVD-Rom SD-612
Artec CD Burner
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I've had this problem since 9.0 (I'm using 10.0 CE now)
When I boot off CD1 and hit enter at the first screen everything works fine. I can install upgrade etc.
But If I hit F1 for other options the computer freezes. I can't even Cntl-Alt-Del. I have not been able to find this problem anywhere on the net (I love Google! :) )
Anyone heard of this before?
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What does the: Option "Buttons" "5" do?
I have a Logitech cordless optical and all I've ever needed to make it work was the first half :
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Mouse1"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Protocol" "ImPS/2"
Option "Device" "/dev/psaux"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
would this allow me to us the fourth side button on my mouse?
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I've been having a little problem with these also. But it seems a little different. I have kernel 2.6.3-7 and an AIW 8500.
First i tried installing fglrx by the instructions on ati's site. everything goes well, utill I type 'startx' then I get a blank screen with the mouse pointer for a few seconds and then the X server shuts down (no lockups or anything like that) the only error I see immediately is the one about the Speedo font. I searched through the Xfree86.0 log and everything look exactly right. no warnings or errors. everything shows as enabled etc.
So I tried selimb's approach at installing the drivers. everything goes according to your instructions until I get to
modprobe radeon
I get a can't find error on that one.
and I still get the same problem on startx.
BTW X starts fine w/out these drivers. It's only after I install fglrx that I get this.
Any ideas? I would really appreciate it.
one other thing. I was just looking at Xorg. It says that 3D accell for my card IS supported with their newest release. Would I be better off scrapping this and trying that instead?
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I do believe that this means you don't have the kernel source installed. it should be on your cd's, just install the src rpm that matches your kernel.
XGL under Mandriva 2006
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Tried this out. The filenames have changed alittle since this post. I used Mandy's Sofware Installer inside KDE to find the right ones and install. All installed with no errors.
Then I did steps 4 and 5 and got a permission denied. I found there was now also "startxgl-kde" and "startxgl-gnome", both of those just brought up regular KDE and Gnome desktops. I'm not sure where I went wrong. Any ideas?
Ken