I have a Dell workstation that I picked up for free. Most everything thing works, but it will not boot to the HDD (SATA). BIOS does not recognize the drive. I can, however, boot to a live Fedora 12 disk, and from the desktop I can see and write to the HDD. I would like to be able to boot from the disk and upgrade to 14 or whatever.
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I have a backup HDD with a different distro for my laptop and i can boot into it via external usb or if swapped into the laptop. This HDD/install in question is debian testing and was working fine, the issue arose suddenly. I was first suspecting a failure of hardware somewhere on the motherboard, but the hdd i was using with an external usb adapter also works when installed into the machine. also, the HDD is recognized once i have booted using the external HDD and distro, but it is not recognized by the bios. so i dunno, my first guess is something became corrupt within the testing install, but i guess its also possible that there is some wrong with the HDD but thats not immediately apparent as all the data is still accessible.
Should also note that the HDD with testing on it is also recognized when connected via the external usb adapter, while booted from alternative distro/HDD.
Also. just tried this, but i can get the testing HDD/disto to boot if connected externally. it was going pretty quick, but there i did catch a line about a corrupt filesystem. any commands to run to see what might be going on?? log files to look at?
I've just installed 10.04 twice on 2 separate disks and it seems to have done something really strange to them. BIOS will not recognise them anymore, it just waits but they never come online. I have to unplug the disk completely for the system to boot.The first time I thought I'd just lost a disk, but when exactly the same thing occurred the second time around, it seems like too much of a coincidence.The installer didn't recognise the disks first time around as they were part of a RAID group previously. I did a dmraid -E -r /dev/sda to fix. After that just installed as per every other time I've used.
View 4 Replies View RelatedI just installed Ubuntu 11.04. The drive was formatted when I installed so it's 100% Ubuntu. The only major problem I have encountered is that Ubuntu will not recognize my SD cards. I really need to access these cards, all my film footage is on there. I think the internal SD card reader (If such a thing exists) would have been deleted during the installation process. I am a greenthumb to Ubuntu and have never used it before so I am rather stuck...
View 7 Replies View RelatedI've had FC11 x86_64 running for awhile based on an upgrade from FC10. I powered down one night then when I tried to boot the next day the system just sat at the BIOS prompt "Verifying DMI pool data...". I opened the case to check all cables - all fine. I've run a memtest, also fine. I then suspected a bad HDD so I ran the Seagate tools from the Ultimate Boot CD (fast test) and both HDDs came up fine. BIOS can see both disks fine, too. I stuffed around with fixmbr and fixboot and got one step further, with it sitting at "invalid operating system" or something like that. I was able to use Linux rescue mode to mount the old filesystems fine.
Today I've completely blown away all my old partitions and started from scratch. After successfully completing an install with custom disk layout (identical to old layout) it still just sits at "Verifying DMI pool data..". Do I have a bad sector in my boot block? Possible BIOS issue? Is there some tool to re-write the boot block?
I'm successfully dual booting and running Windows XP and Fedora 11 (with EVERY recent update installed), everything works fine EXCEPT that I cannot get both System times to synchronize.. Evey time I run Fedora I find the system time is always an hour different to Windows. Evert time I correct the system time in Fedora it affects my BIOS time settings. If I then go into Windows I first have to go into the BIOS and correct the BIOS time setting by one hour before I get the correct time in Windows........ Nothing is wrong with my Windows side of things, I know this because if I don't log into Fedora then my system times stay correct, only when I correct the settings in Fedora (which are always an hour out) do I get my BIOS changed. Also in Fedora, although I live in the UK (London) Fedora ALWAYS DEFAULTS TO Guernsey, no matter how many times I correct this to LONDON, Fedora always defaults back to Guernsey.... Has anyone else experienced this as I'm sure it's a Bug in Fedora, surely it shouldn't alter my BIOS settings, should it ??
View 9 Replies View RelatedWell, after installing the 64-bit RTM release of Windows 7, I finally became too fed up to stand it anymore. My BIOS does not recognize more than 3 GBs of RAM and therefore even my 64-bit Operating Systems (Windows 7 and Fedora 11) can't see or use the extra gig. Is there any way to get another BIOS or to add the support to my existing BIOS?
Oh, before I forget, I am using an Acer Aspire 5630 incase the model is required.
I have created a live fedora11 usb using live usb creator, but when I restart the computer the bios does not recognize the live usb and system stop (not shut down) when I choose boot from usb drive option.
BIOS: inside H20
I'm completely new to Fedora, though not to Linux (I'm switching from Ubuntu 9.10, now) and am having a few problems getting it installed. I followed the installation instructions, torrented the i386 DVD image, and put it on a 4gb USB drive using UNetbootin.
This is where my problems started. I restarted the computer, figured out which F key I needed to press to select the boot source, and then there wasn't a USB boot option. I've looked all over the place (using Google) and can't find out how to get the BIOS to have a USB option there-- I'm using a Toshiba Satellite A10, and that doesn't come with the USB boot option.
Now I'm trying to either figure out how to add the USB boot option or find another way to install. Burning a DVD (or CDs) doesn't work, as I don't have the resources to do so. I've seen somewhere that there's a way to install from a hard drive partition, but no instructions on how to do so (if someone could point me to a way to do that, it seems to be my best option right now-- if it even exists).
When I moved from Fedora 13 from Fedora 11, I thought the annoying application crashes that I had been having were gone for good. Random crashes - firefox, Thunderbird, Abrt, metacity and what have you with SIGSEGV errors. I'm beginning to believe that these are not down to Fedora or even the RAM (Have run Memtest, several times). I'm not sure if what I am seeing are signs of IRQ conflicts of some sort. Can someone, please have a look and give me some guidance on what to do? Should I reinstall with acpi=off ? noapic? Also, don't have a clue why the system complains of ECC being disabled? The RAM is non-ECC. I have posted some sections of the logs here with links to the full logs instead of making this a massive post.
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EDAC MC: Ver: 2.1.0 Aug 27 2010
EDAC amd64_edac: Ver: 3.3.0 Aug 27 2010
EDAC amd64: This node reports that Memory ECC is currently disabled, set F3x44[22] (0000:00:18.3).
EDAC amd64: ECC disabled in the BIOS or no ECC capability, module will not load.
Either enable ECC checking or force module loading by setting 'ecc_enable_override'.
(Note that use of the override may cause unknown side effects.)
amd64_edac: probe of 0000:00:18.2 failed with error -22
Complete system spec, BIOS details etc.
Full dmesg log on a fresh install. No issues experienced with system installation.
getting this bug report on starting fedora 13 in hp laptop
WARNING: at drivers/pci/dmar.c:647 check_zero_address+0x96/0x19b()
Hardware name: HP Pavilion dv6 Notebook PC
Your BIOS is broken; DMAR reported at address zero!
BIOS vendor: Hewlett-Packard; Ver: F.42; Product Version: Rev 1
Modules linked in:
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I messed up my computer a little bit... I had F14, but I wanted to format the entireisk. I launched an installation cd with some older version of Fedora,dered it to remove everything (but I didn't accept changes, that's important!), but in the meantime I changed my mind and I wanted to wipe the disk the other way. There was no 'quit' button anywhere,just.. powered off the computer. Dumb, I know.Right now it doesn't work at all. At first, I thought I destroyed the partition array, but I looked into the bios and it says that no HDD drive is installed. And I have no idea what to do now. I tried to find a solution via Google, but all I found were problems related to newly bought hard drives. Nothing about a blonde powering off the computer during the installation process though .
View 4 Replies View Relatedtwo weeks i was trying find out to change the bios settings in linux from command line...can we edit the bios settings after os loaded without reboot
View 7 Replies View RelatedAs I understand, Fedora 12 sets up Intel ICH (when set in BIOS) as mdraid instead of dmraid.I would like to setup my 2 SATA hard drives so ultimately my /boot partition is RAID1, my / (ROOT) partition is RAID 1, and my swap is either RAID0, or fstab referencing 2 partitions on 2 of the drives, both set with pri=0 (which supposedly is equivalent to striping of RAID0, performance wise).
Assuming Fedora 12 uses mdraid for my configuration in either instance, am I better of enabling, or disabling the RAID mode in the BIOS? This system is strictly Fedora--no dual booting, no Windows. Any performance gains; reliability benefits between either scenario?It's a Intel P35 motherboard with ICH9R. Storage configuration is either "AHCI" or "RAID"
I ran into some strange issues with dropping drives with the RAID set on in BIOS. When it was set, that gave me two md devices of md126 (RAID0, swap) and 127 (RAID1 split between / and /boot). I think I had md126p1 for the SWAP, and md127p1 for /boot and md127p2 for / Within purely software, i have:
/dev/sda1 RAID
/dev/sda2 swap
/dev/sda3 RAID
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I suppose unless the BIOS enabled RAID is supposed to be faster, I'll stick with a purely software route and keep the BIOS set to AHCI.
I am having this message during starting my Fedora 10: Code:PCI: BIOS BUG #0[00000031] foundI have searched for this error but only found information like: "this does not matter" or "hard disk plugged into an external sata connector on the main board" - I have not done the latter. Because I am also having some trouble with my tv-card (module tda9887 is not loaded during the first start, only after a reboot) I would be happy to solve this error (or to know where it is coming from)
My computer has the following hardware:
-graphics: Lead896 D3 X GTX260 Extreme+
-CPU: Intel Core2Duo E8500, 3166 MHz, FSB 775
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I have Intel development board where I boot Fedora. If I use AMI bios then Fedora boot without video, I however can communicate to kernel via serial console. I suspect that this problem with video related to Legacy Bios Rom option. I however don't understand why it influences Linux, because it has good video driver. It was checked with another bootloader. what role is played by Legacy Bios Rom option.
View 1 Replies View RelatedWhile building my new server I grinded ta hold shortly after inserting the FDR10 DVD.
Hardware:
Chenbro es34069
Albatron KI690-AM2
AMD Athlon X2 64 4850E
IDE 2.5" HD (master)
IDE Slimline DVD (slave)
4x SATA II swap (still empty)
It stops at the message "net: Registered protocol family 2" but in one of my desperate attempts I changed almost every setting in my BIOS (updated to 1.07) and all of a sudden it passed on. Stupid enough I figured it would be a small effort to find the setting and figure out the problem, so I changed them one at a time after loading the defaults....
I have a working F-10 box with an older motherboard (pre-sata). The p-ata ports are full (4 drives), so I'm trying to add a sata controller and another drive. The sata controller plugs into the pci bus, but is not detected by the bios (very old). After booting, the OS loads the driver module(s) and detects the new controller and drive. I was able to add the new sata drive into the LVM system using system-config-lvm. All was fine until I rebooted.
I get pages of lvm errors and booting fails. It looks like it's trying to mount the volumes before the sata controller is modprobed. Is there a way to get the os to modprobe for the new controller before trying to mount? The extra drive space is on a data partition, not the boot partition.
If I'm root, I can use the dmidecode command to find out the BIOS Asset Tag value:
Code:
Handle 0x0004, DMI type 3, 17 bytes
Chassis Information
Manufacturer: xxx
Type: xxx
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Is there a way that a user without root privileges can read this value?
Has anyone tried upgrading the BIOS on Dell laptops? This is the Dell Windows based update for my Studio 1558 laptop. [URL] Would this work using Wine? Is there a Fedora way to apply this update?
View 3 Replies View RelatedI installed REL 5.5 on this Dell laptop (originally win 7) and everything works ok except when i get to the login GUI the LCD brightness (or lack of) sets to it's lowest so i have to click the f5 button to brighten the screen. If I log out, the LCD resets to the dimmest setting (can hardly make out the login GUI) and again I have to click on f5. I believe I need to update the BIOS but I don't know how. The BIOS update I dound on-line if a xxx.exe file.
View 1 Replies View RelatedI have a dell inspiron 530 desktop with core 2 quad and 4GB memory, running 32bit vista and 64 bit fedora 10. I searched on the web with "can I install 8GB memory on dell inspiron 530", and got couple of articles that says I only needed a bios upgrade.I downloaded bios version 1.0.18 from dell and run that in Windows to replace bios 1.0.12.After it said upgrade successful and asked me whether I wanted to reboot to have the new bios taking effect, and I said yes. And it shutdown the computer, and never came up Now, when power up, I see nothing, not even the "F2 to setup, F12 to boot menu" message, much less the grub selection. Is there a way to revive the computer?
View 4 Replies View RelatedI have a Dell Vostro with sda and sdb (the latter was installed by myself). I installed FC14 x86 64 onto sdb with /boot being on /dev/sdb8
I did not want to install grub onto /dev/sda as this is a shared machine. I thought that I would be able to use the BIOS's 'select boot device' to select the sdb disk and boot off that and get into FC that way.
fdisk verifies that /dev/sdb8 is marked as bootable and grub (via find /grub/stage1) confirms that it is installed on hd1,7 (ie /dev/sdb8)
However, no matter which hd is choosen as the boot device, Windows is always booted - I change the boot order to use: DVD, sdb, sda but it still boots Windows. It seems like the BIOS only wants to boot sda no matter what.
I just replaced the battery on my motherboard in an older computer that I was going to load Linux on. Before I replaced the battery, I booted up the computer and my old copy of win2k loaded up fine. Now that I have replaced the battery, the BIOS will not load the ROM from my PCI ATA adapters (one SIIG ATA 133 IDE controller, and one Promise ATA 133 IDE controller) which are hooked to my hard drives that I boot from (software raid 1) and the CDROM drive in the system (along with some other hard drives for storage). I removed the adapters and stuck them in another computer to check them. They both loaded their ROM's into the BIOS of the other computer. So the cards are fine. The computer has an award BIOS. I have checked all of the settings and reset the CMOS again, but it will not load the ROMs from the PCI controllers into the BIOS on boot.
View 14 Replies View RelatedI updated Fedora 14 with the new kernel-2.6.35.12-88.fc14.i686 but when I reboot its rebooting automatically after showing the bios. What can I do now.
View 3 Replies View RelatedI'm trying to automate OS installation. I've setup PXE and able to do network installation. For installation, I'm changing the BIOS boot order to boot from network.Once the OS installation is over, I need to manually change the BIOS boot order to boot from hard-disk. Can BIOS boot order be changed using programs/command-line so that i can eliminate human intervention in the installation process by changing back to the original boot order by program/commands?
View 2 Replies View RelatedI was installing DYMOUM from [url]. "make" command is issuing this error:
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Prior to this, ns-2.34 was working fine. Patches are applied very well.
I am in under fedora 9 and:
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Server has DQ35JO board, 8GB memory, multiple SATA hard drives. It was happily running Fedora 10, and Fedora 9 before that. I downloaded and burned the F11 DVD, booted it, did an install which is:
-- delete the LVMs
-- create a 200 MB /boot on ext3, the rest of /dev/sda on ext3 as /
-- reformat the swap partition on /dev/sdb1
-- leave the other file systems alone (they are all ext3)
I chose no optional packages and let it install. It finished normally and got to the "click to reboot" screen. Now, my server is completely bricked. When I power it up I get a blank screen with a blinking cursor. I cannot even get to the BIOS, or boot my Fedora DVD, much less boot the boot drive.
Since I have installed fedora 13 in my system (HP pavilion 1506tx) I rtsam getting this error every time my system starts/ restarts. I don't know how to correct this error. Here is the message displayed in Automatic Bug reporting tool
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WARNING: at drivers/pci/dmar.c:647 check_zero_address+0x7d/0x191()
Hardware name: HP Pavilion dv4 Notebook PC
Your BIOS is broken; DMAR reported at address zero!
BIOS vendor: Hewlett-Packard; Ver: F.55; Product Version: 039B140000241210100020000
Modules linked in:
Pid: 0, comm: swapper Not tainted 2.6.33.5-124.fc13.i686 #1
Call Trace:
[<c0436df5>] warn_slowpath_common+0x65/0x7c
[<c09d92a3>] ? check_zero_address+0x7d/0x191
[<c0436e40>] warn_slowpath_fmt+0x24/0x27
[<c09d92a3>] check_zero_address+0x7d/0x191
[<c05edc18>] ? acpi_get_table_with_size+0x53/0xa1
[<c09d93c8>] detect_intel_iommu+0x11/0x69
[<c09bd888>] pci_iommu_alloc+0x8/0xa
[<c09ca721>] mem_init+0xe/0x245
[<c09b776a>] start_kernel+0x1bf/0x34b
[<c09b73e7>] ? unknown_bootoption+0x0/0x18e
[<c09b7099>] i386_start_kernel+0x99/0xa0
I'm attempting to install F13 on a server that has a 2-disk RAID setup in the BIOS. When I get to the screen where I select what drive to install on, there are no drives listed. The hard drives were completely formatted before starting the 13 installation. Do I need to put something on them before Fedora will install?
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