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October 29th, 2008 01:00
M4400 need linux but fedora 9 live cd ng
Maybe if I knew more about the Fedora 9 Live CD I'd have a way to get Linux on this machine. Brand-spanking new M4400, even paid Dell to leave some of the disk (most actually) for linux. I'm a Fedora person, and have Fedora 9 running lots of places. I've heard about nvidia graphics drivers issues and sound issues, which I'm looking forward to figuring out.
It looks like X isn't starting, but I'm up in character mode. I'm going to try the old-fashioned route, with the Fedora 9 DVD. I'm guessing its that graphics driver problem - effecting the live cd X startup. Darnit.
I was ready to try Ubuntu 8.04.1 but I've heard its suffering from these same problems. Since I'm comfortable with Fedora's distro, I'm reluctant to go down that road.
Anybody out there? I HAVE to run Vista, and I REALLY HAVE to run Linux - no vm's.
ah yes the bleeding edge
cjpith
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October 30th, 2008 00:00
Some progress to report. Downloaded and burned the Fedora 9 boot cd and distro DVD. Booted successfully, installer ran and recognized the dvd. Installer ran. Had it use the parition space set aside by Dell and install completed.
On reboot, Vista did not boot reporting the the boot manager was missing. I noticed it was booting from hd 0,1. I noticed that the first partition was type 'de' - must be the Dell recovery package. Second partition was smallish, NTFS. Third was clearly the NTFS Vista partition. Apparently Fedora 9 picked the second partition for booting "Other". This was wrong. I booted rescue mode, mounted the Fedora boot partition and modified grub.conf to use hd 0,2. Now Vista boots.
Booted into the installed Fedora parition but BAD NEWS. Kernel seems to hang, here's what I see:
Booting 'Fedora (2.6.25-14.fc9.i686)'
root (hd0,4)
Filesystem type is ext2fs, partition type 0x83
kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.25-14.fc9.i686 ro root=UUID...
e8570 rhgb quiet
[Linux-bzImage, setup=0x3000, size=0x1fab60]
initrd /initrd=2.6.25-14.fc9.i686.img
[Linux-initrd @ 0x ...
Decompressing Linux... done.
Booting the kernel.
Red hat nash version 6.0.52 starting
irq 19: nobody cared (try booting with the "irqpoll" option)
handlers:
[ ] (yenta_interrupt+0x0/0xba)
Disabling IRQ #19
Reading all physical volumes. This may take a while...
No volume groups found
Volume group "VolGroup00" not found
Unable to access resume device (/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol01)
mount: could not find filesystem '/dev/root'
setuproot: moving /dev failed: No such file or directory
setuproot: error mounting /proc: No such file or directory
setuproot: error mounting /sys: No such file or directory
Mount failed for selinuxfs on /selinux: No such file or directory
switchroot: mount failed: No such file or directory
that's it. any ideas? did I pick the wrong install image maybe?