On Thursday 26 February 2009, Craig White wrote:
>On Thu, 2009-02-26 at 22:37 -0500, Gene Heskett wrote:
>> Greetings;
>>
>> I killed x trying to make this )*(&%$ video card work so I put the f10 dvd
>> in and updated it to F10.
>>
>> Two immediate problems.
>>
>> 1. Grub must have miss-fired, all I get is the grub shell and I have to
>> enter all the boot data line by line in order to boot. Is that a fresh
>> grub- install?
>
>----
>that hasn't been a commonly reported problem with F10 but after you boot
>up, have you run 'grub-install /dev/sda' to ensure that grub is properly
>installed? What does /boot/grub/grub.conf look like?
# grub.conf generated by anaconda
#
# Note that you do not have to rerun grub after making changes to this file
# NOTICE: You have a /boot partition. This means that
# all kernel and initrd paths are relative to /boot/, eg.
# root (hd0,0)
# kernel /vmlinuz-version ro root=/dev/sdb3
# initrd /initrd-version.img
#boot=/dev/sdb
default=0
fallback=9
timeout=15
splashimage=(hd0,0)/grub/splash.xpm.gz
# 0
title Fedora (2.6.27.5-117.fc10.i686.PAE)
root (hd0,0)
kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.27.5-117.fc10.i686.PAE ro
root=UUID=811c07da-065e-4da7-988e-686913725b53 rhgb quiet nomodeset
initrd /initrd-2.6.27.5-117.fc10.i686.PAE.img
# 2
title Fedora (2.6.27.5-117.fc10.i686)
root (hd0,0)
kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.27.5-117.fc10.i686 ro
root=UUID=811c07da-065e-4da7-988e-686913725b53 rhgb quiet nomodeset
initrd /initrd-2.6.27.5-117.fc10.i686.img
# 3
title fedora (2.6.28)
root (hd0,0)
kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.28 ro root=LABEL=/ rhgb quiet nomodeset
initrd /initrd-2.6.28.img
# 4
title fedora (2.6.28.2)
root (hd0,0)
kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.28.2 ro root=LABEL=/ rhgb quiet nomodeset
initrd /initrd-2.6.28.2.img
# 5
title fedora (2.6.28.3)
root (hd0,0)
kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.28.3 ro root=LABEL=/ rhgb quiet nomodeset
initrd /initrd-2.6.28.3.img
# 6
title fedora (2.6.28.4)
root (hd0,0)
kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.28.4 ro root=LABEL=/ rhgb quiet nomodeset
initrd /initrd-2.6.28.4.img
# 7
title fedora (2.6.28.5)
root (hd0,0)
kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.28.5 ro root=LABEL=/ rhgb quiet nomodeset
initrd /initrd-2.6.28.5.img
# 8
title fedora (2.6.28.6)
root (hd0,0)
kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.28.6 ro root=LABEL=/ rhgb quiet nomodeset
initrd /initrd-2.6.28.6.img
# 9
title fedora (2.6.28.7)
root (hd0,0)
kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.28.7 ro root=LABEL=/ rhgb quiet nomodeset
initrd /initrd-2.6.28.7.img
#10
title fedora (2.6.29-rc2)
root (hd0,0)
kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.29-rc2 ro root=LABEL=/ rhgb quiet nomodeset
initrd /initrd-2.6.29-rc2.img
#11
title fedora (2.6.29-rc3)
root (hd0,0)
kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.29-rc3 ro root=LABEL=/ rhgb quiet nomodeset
initrd /initrd-2.6.29-rc3.img
#12
title Ubuntu jaunty (development branch), kernel 2.6.28-6-generic
root (hd2,0)
uuid dec5d1c4-967e-4946-8f1b-4b30b6ceee07
kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.28-6-generic
root=UUID=cb93c923-1039-44ba-965f-9fb581dc16be ro quiet splash
initrd /initrd.img-2.6.28-6-generic
quiet
#11
title Ubuntu jaunty (development branch), kernel 2.6.28-6-generic
(recovery mode)
root (hd2,0)
uuid dec5d1c4-967e-4946-8f1b-4b30b6ceee07
kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.28-6-generic
root=UUID=cb93c923-1039-44ba-965f-9fb581dc16be ro single
initrd /initrd.img-2.6.28-6-generic
#12
title Ubuntu jaunty (development branch), memtest86+
root (hd2,0)
uuid dec5d1c4-967e-4946-8f1b-4b30b6ceee07
kernel /memtest86+.bin
quiet
======================
The initial, commented /dev/sdb is correct, /dev/sda is the master drive on
this mobo's only PATA interface, and is not normally mounted. /dev/sdb is the
first SATA drive, and is selected as the first bootable hard disk in the bios.
So I assume then that my command line to install grub again would then be:
grub-install /dev/sdb ?
>----
>
>> 2. Yum wants to update 435 packages, but many dependencies stop it. What
>> is the f10 procedure to bring that up to speed now?
>
>----
>you probably have some packages that have to be manually removed that
>are blocking the update.
I will probably hit a package that does this eventually, I have it processing
the updates displayed about 1 yumex screen full at a time, and so far that
hasn't triggered a dependency storm. That knocking sound, yeah, you know what
it is.
Thanks Craig.
>You probably want to check out this page
>http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/YumUpgradeFaq even if you used the DVD or
>preupgrade to install the update as this has a lot of information useful
>like 'clean stuff' section and various issues going from like 8=>9 or
>9=>10
I have tons of self compiled stuff here, and will again shortly. The radeonhd
driver supplied with the dvd is so slow I can repaint the screen with a 2"
wide paint brush faster.
[root@coyote ~]# glxgears
1628 frames in 5.0 seconds = 325.495 FPS
1636 frames in 5.0 seconds = 327.036 FPS
1635 frames in 5.0 seconds = 326.821 FPS
1573 frames in 5.0 seconds = 314.521 FPS
1455 frames in 5.0 seconds = 290.819 FPS
1521 frames in 5.0 seconds = 304.192 FPS
Which surprises me, it feels a heck of a lot slower. Moving firefox an inch
to the left takes about 10 seconds as it redraws the whole screen about 50
times doing it.
It was doing about 900 before I broke it. And I could move a screen as fast
as the mouse moved. Sigh.
>Craig
--
Cheers, Gene
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