I have an old computer (with floppy drive ) which does not support booting from USB drive.
However, it can boot from CD drive.
I have already created a USB disk with Fedora 10 which I use merrily in my another computer.
But how do I use it in the old computer?
Is there any way to initially boot via CD and then transfer control to USB Fedora?
Basicly I turned off. I turn back on and the Plymouth Graphical Splash just sits there when the "F" apears... I managed to get a text login by doing ALT+Control+F2 and managed to get on IRC and I got some help (I still can't boot normaly) but thanks to the solution by nirik which was to get a text-login and to run startx, that works, however it doesn't fix the problem of me not being able to boot normaly, If I add nomodeset to the KMS I get:[URL] strangly enough the reason why I reset is because the Internet wasn't working. This error seems to mention eth0 quite a bit..
---------- Post added at 03:18 AM CST ---------- Previous post was Yesterday at 09:31 PM CST ----------BUMP. Come on this is stoping games from working, ETC---------- Post added at 03:31 AM CST ---------- Previous post was at 03:18 AM CST ----------I relise I haven't posted much info..
I can't boot F14 on my computer because of a bug in the intel AGP driver.
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This is still a bug in the latest kernel
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but looks like it's fixed in 2.6.35-7.12
When will this kernel be release?
Is there any way to bypass this driver during boot up so I can install F14?
I'm setting up my first Linux install and I was wondering if I would be able to boot Fedora from a CD while keeping every other file on my computer, or in other words if I would be able to put the /boot partition onto a cd. I've also read that Linux can be booted entirely from a logical partition. If that's true then can anyone help me in setting that up. Mostly my problem is I already have four primary partitions, one being a logical drive with plenty of free space in it, and I can't get rid of the primary partitions I already have.
View 1 Replies View RelatedI have recently installed Fedora 15 KDE (with Dual Boot Win7) on my computer:Dell Optiplex 330, Intel Core2Duo- 2.53 GHz, 32 Bit, 2GB RamnVIDIA 8400 GSWhile going through the Guides mentioned here: for F15, I tried to install nVIDIA Drivers after updating the Kernel.suyum update kernel*rebootHowever it gave me some errors and then I did try the following method (as described in Missingbox studio guide)su -yum install akmod-nvidia xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-libs.i686 bootconf-gui kernel*develfollowed by Reboot.
I start my computer, I get the screen which shows that Fedora will boot in 3 seconds. This is followed by a black screen with a "Blue followed by white" Bar running towards right (where Fedora 15 is written)....It stays there for ever (I waited for 3 hours and then switched off my computer).Presently I am writing this post through Windows7.Is there any way I can repair Fedora through Win7 or by any other means.---------- Post added at 10:57 AM ---------- Previous post was at 10:51 AM ----------I remember the instructions (given by leigh123linux) that we should provide the following information
rpm -qa *vidia* *kernel*|sort;uname -r;lsmod |grep -e nvidia -e nouveau;cat /etc/X11/xorg.confI had it saved as a .txt file in my home folder.
I have transferred FC10-liveCD on to 1GB USB using liveusb-creator.
But the computer cannot start up with this one, die after leaving following message:
Cannot find linux kernel image boot:
I don't know what's wrong. I got the same error message when I transfered boot.img onto USB.
I have a Dell notebook without cd-rom. I want to use a usb-pen to boot the computer so I can do a netinstall. Unfortunately I can't find much discussing this topics. At least as far as I can see.. Everybody is talking about making the usb a live-cd etc etc tec.. There has to be an easier way? It should be possible to just copy file1 2 and 3 over to the usb here in Vista, reboot and start the install so I can type in the location and start the netinstall!
View 4 Replies View RelatedI am running Fedora 11 on a Gigabyte GA-MA790X-DS4 MB, AMD x2, and three WD5000AAKS 500Gb drives. Today, I had to reboot, and the PC stops on a normal reboot with merely the word GRUB on a line on its own.
It takes a long time to perform the "Detecting IDE drives" process which may be some help in diagnosis.
When I tried to boot in with the installation disk to do a rescue, it got as far as complaining with the following messages before freezing completely:-
ata1: SATA link up 3.0 Gbps (SStatus 123 SControl 300)
ata1: link online but device misclassified, retrying
ata1: reset failed (errno=-11) retrying in 5 secs
then it displays
ata1: limiting SATA link speed to 1.5Gbps
after which it freezes
diagnosis of what is wrong will be gratefully received. I am beginning to think that I will need to replace the MB.
My computer refuses to boot. When I try to boot from my hard drive, it's just stuck at that annoying little thing in the upper left corner, blinking, driving me crazy
When I try to boot from a live media it just gets stuck at "ACPI: Core revision 20070126"
I've tried various CD's and it's just telling me the same thing. I can't figure out what is wrong.
Lately my i've experience that for some reason my computer would just turn off, and sometimes reboot.
I've read a little about ACPI, and it's a shortening for Advanced Configuration and Power Interface.
When entering my BIOS and going to the "Power"-tab i have the possibillity of enabling ACPI 2.0 support. Don't know if this is a good idea though, and i won't risk destroying my computer
Hardware configuration:
Processor: Intel Pentium 4 3.2Ghz
Motherboard: Some old ASUS
Memory: 2GB
Video Card: Ati Radeon 9600 128MB
I just noticed that there is an icon on my desktop that is named Filesystem, it is the Windows XP portion of the hard drive. I don't remember seeing it on the desktop, I only noticed it 15 minutes ago after installing Adobe flash player. Is that icon supposed to be on my Fedora desktop?
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View 6 Replies View RelatedI've been having problems with Dolphin hanging on me and I found out that the problem is due to something with dbus 1.2x. So I downloaded the source for dbus 1.3.1 and proceeded to update dbus by incrementally uninstalling and installing all of the packages it requires. Today I noticed that both dbus-libs 1.24 and dbus-libs 1.3.1 were installed, so I went to get rid of the 1.2 version so that yum would stop telling me there was a conflict.
This is what I did:
Code:
su
rpm -e --nodeps dbus-libs
rpm -Uvh file:///root/rpmbuild/RPMS/X86_64/dbus-libs(versionNum).rpm
I ran that once and restarted, but I think that something happened the first time because rather than it replacing the 1.2x version with 1.3.1 all that was left was 1.2x. So I did the same process as the last time, but after removing dbus-libs I forgot the path to the RPMbuild so I closed konsole and tried to open Dolphin. Well, obviously that's not going to work. So then I, even more stupidly, restarted... And now Fedora won't boot up. How do I reinstall dbus-libs without a bootable Fedora?
I remember a friend of mine was able to get my computer to boot under CUI, and the command 'start x' started the GUI. with booting up my computer through CUI.
View 3 Replies View Relatedbasically put a new hard drive in my old computer and wanted to install fedora on it, downloaded fedora 12 dvd iso (3ish gb in size) have burnt it to a dvd disc, turned my laptop on and set it to boot from cd drive, restarted it, it reads the disc and displays the following message:
ISOLINUX 3.75 209-04-16 ETCD Copyright (C) 1994-2009 H.Peter Anvin et al
Could not find kernel image: Linux
boot:_
The uderscore is flashing and i can type stuff in but have no idea what to type in to find the kernel image, or why it cant find the kernel image.
I performed a clean install of Fedora 15 from DVD and it goes fine until the end when the install program says to reboot the computer. Once I do that, the computer hangs before Grub loads, i.e. just after all of the BIOS messages, so there isn't any error message to indicate what is wrong. I had no issues with Fedora 14.
View 3 Replies View RelatedI've been a long time Windows user, but I've started a small firm and because of lack of funds, I've decided to install Ubuntu on my company's PCs.I have 8 PCs in total - 6 of them with Intel CPUs, and the last two with AMD CPUs. I bought the extra two computers because I've managed to find an extra two people to work at my company, and AMD-based PCs are cheaper so I've decided to buy them instead of Intel.Long-story short, I've installed Ubuntu 9.10 and boot time takes about half-an-hour. After the computers finally boot, USB hardware doesn't work at all. I was forced to buy PS/2 keyboards & mice and they both work fine after the PCs boot.I don't know what's causing this delay.I've enabled Cool 'n Quiet from BIOS.I've tried several instructions like editing the /etc/modules file.I've installed cpufreqd, tried to configure it, but it didn't work.I've check the CPU stats and my CPUs are running at 800MHz. I can't believe nobody managed to fix the 800MHz problem as I've noticed it's quite common among AMD Ubuntu users. I think I've tried almost anything that I've found on this forum.I can't keep asking my employees not to reboot their PCs. Both Chrome/Firefox crash a lot on Ubuntu so they're forced to restart their computers.The computer specs are: AMD Athlon II X2 240 dual-core @ 2.800MHz, 2GB RAM, 500GB HDD, etc.
View 9 Replies View RelatedI have two computers in my home running ferora . I want to copy a file from my 2nd computer to my local computer. Local PC:- 192.168.1.10
Remote PC:- 192.168.1.20
[root@localhost root]#scp 192.168.1.20:/home file1.txt
root@192.168.1.20s password:
scp: /home not a regular file
[root@localhost root]
I followed a tutorial to install XP across my entire HDD. I installed Ubuntu 10.10 "Alongside another OS". Ubuntu loads fine, but when trying to load XP, the boot screen shows up, but then the computer restarts and returns to the GRUB menu.
I saw some threads on this site and tried to type: sudo gedit /boot/grub/menu.lst
In the terminal. It returned a blank text document so I'm not sure if that information was outdated. I then typed: sudo fdisk -l
And got this:
Not sure what any of this means, but I sure hope someone else does. I would say forget XP, but it's hard to let go of some of the games and software I use. I appreciate any responses, thank you.
I tried to format the table as it appeared, but the forum corrected the extra spaces.
it started with rooting my Motorola Droid. I got quite interested in the whole rooting/linux "world". The only problem is, my hands move A LOT faster than my brain does. I'm an "educated novice" at best when it comes to all of this and still learning slowly, but surely. I followed an online tutorial and before I realized quite what i'd done, I had dual installed Ubuntu linux 10.10 on my laptop. ISO'd this, partitioned that and realized....i'm in way over my head. Then I started researching how to just go back in time and get my "safe" windows vista back until I'm ready to make the switch to linux and just ended up getting more confused.
How do I actually BOOT into Windows on a dual boot computer that I apparently just created? How, if need be, do I undo everything I just did in the past few hours and careless tinkering? If I decide to stay with Linux, how do I get my damn wireless router to recognize?
I edited /etc/fstab and after that the computer won't boot up. I got as far as (Repair filesystem) 32 #mount -w -o -remount / and it says already mounted or busy. I type (Repair filesystem) 32 #mount And it looks like all mount points are (rw) I try to edit /etc/fstab but when I save it I get told that the filesystem is READ ONLY.
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View 3 Replies View Relatedi have downgraded from Ubuntu 10.10 to Ubuntu 10.04. I've had some bumps along the way and finally was able to install 10.04 successfully. Right now, my computer will not boot from the HDD and will only boot from the USB drive that the LiveCD is on. When I reorganize to set HDD as primary boot, i get:id-laptop login:d-laptop password:and I can put that in but then it just gives me a command line that ends with ~$ i believe. How do I get it to boot from the HDD instead of from the USB without running into this problem?
If I resequence the boot to HDD as number two, it will juts go into the LiveCD mode. Am I supposed to reinstall 10.04 again? I know 10.04 was successfully installed because it said it was and it needed to restart so i hit the restart button. It also had my old desktop picture there and all my files AND i checked the system info before restarting (it confirmed that lucid lynx was running).
I have (had) a dual boot computer;Win XP and Ubuntu 10.10 64 bit.I decided it was necessary to enlarge my Root and Home Partitions. Using the instructions http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.p...ome+Partitions I successfully enlarged the partitions and restored 10.10 (I used the copy command suggested by Irony). However when I boot the computer it boots to Ubuntu but no longer gives me the option of going into XP(it is not listed in Grub menu). Is there a fairly straightforward way of getting XP back on the Grub menu so I can boot to XP again?
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View 1 Replies View RelatedAlright, so one day I was on Windows 7 and I install some hardware called "Flux" and then I get IRQL NOT LESS OR EQUAL bluescreened.. GAY. Luckily I had dual-booted with Ubuntu 10.10 ^__^.. So one day I was on Ubuntu and I was thinking of doing a system recovery for Windows 7. As I was backing up my files something went wrong I guess and then I went to my disk utility thing. I then found my main hard drive and decided to mess around with it(Because I'm Stupid) Now I accidently unmounted it or something. Then my Computer shuts down and comes back up saying "No Bootable Devices"... I then went on to run hp tests and found out my computer knows the HDD is there but its not detecting it as a bootable device UGH. So how would you suggest I fix this? I was thinking of putting bootfiles on a blank dvd and making ubuntu boot from my dvdrom. But what would happen to my old files? I really want to keep my old files. -__- Do you guys know how I can fix this?
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View 1 Replies View RelatedI got a Gigabyte GIGABYTE GA-H55M-S2H, LGA1156, Intel� H55, DDR3 Motherboard
G.SKILL Ripjaws Series 4GB (2 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1600 (PC3 12800) Desktop Memory Model F3-12800CL7D-4GBRM
and also a Intel Core i5-750 Lynnfield 2.66GHz 8MB L3 Cache LGA 1156 95W Quad-Core Processor
As soon as i try to boot from USB image made with Unetbootin or the Live CD i get the splash screen with the Ubuntu logo and the white and red dots under the logo and then My monitor says going to sleep and thats it .
I also have a ATI HD 5770 but it works in 10.4 as of last week
I cant get past that a real bummer i cant run Ubuntu anymore
Tried restarting my netbook with Karmic on it this morning. Got the login screen and an error message as follows:
Install Problem The configuration defaults for GNOME Power Manager have not been installed correctly.contact your computer Administrator. Then when I click on my user name the system just comes back to the login screen and the same error message. Does this each time I try to login. Can't get it to boot.