TNWestTex wrote: > > Getting more and more unhappy since F8. Multiboot system with VISTA, F8 > and F10 with only minor Glitches in F10. Tried to do preupgrade on the > F10 partition.Things seemed to go alright until the reboot. System locks > up with a blank screen. The performance of the driver for the > "Intel Corporation" > "82945G/GZ Integrated Graphics Controller" > has been poor since F8. The "i810" driver that gives good performance in > F8 doesn't work for F10. The "Intel" driver gives an offset screen. It > only woks without an xorg.conf. The result of system-config-display is a > lockup. I filed a bug report long ago that I was notified was going away > with F10 unless I could show that it was still in the newer system. > > The stanza in grub was as follows: > > title Upgrade to Fedora 12 (Constantine) > kernel /boot/upgrade/vmlinuz preupgrade > repo=hd::/var/cache/yum/preupgrade > stage2=hd:UUID=e990768e-e724-4250-bfc1-a25e0320e099:/boot/upgrade/install.img > ks=hd:UUID=e990768e-e724-4250-bfc1-a25e0320e099:/boot/upgrade/ks.cfg > initrd /boot/upgrade/initrd.img > > The UUID agrees with what was in the F10 stanza. I saw in the forum the > advice to add > > xdriver=vesa nomodeset > > to the kernel line. That change enabled the session to get a little > farther, but it then fails with a message box that it can't find the root > of the system to upgrade. > > Disk /dev/sda: 250.0 GB, 250059350016 bytes > 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 30401 cylinders > Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes > Disk identifier: 0xf4fd4adf > > Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System > /dev/sda1 19 6949 55673257+ 7 HPFS/NTFS > /dev/sda2 1 18 144553+ 83 Linux > /dev/sda3 6950 30401 188378190 5 Extended > /dev/sda5 6950 13328 51239286 7 HPFS/NTFS > /dev/sda6 13329 13670 2747083+ 82 Linux swap / > Solaris > /dev/sda7 * 13671 22102 67730008+ 83 Linux > /dev/sda8 22103 30401 66661686 83 Linux > > Tried adding a root declaration to the kernel line but neither > root=/dev/sda7 nor > > root=UUID=e990768e-e724-4250-bfc1-a25e0320e099 > > made any difference. > > Tried the installation DVD but the text mode install won't recognize my > disk structure. The graphical install locks up. Is there a way to add > the "xdriver=vesa nomodeset" to the graphical startup? The netinstall CD > and a liveCD all have the graphics problem. I have the INTEL compiler > suite and MATHEMATICA on the system that don't stay nicely in /home. > Letting the text mode install convert my partition to LVM would not be > nice!!! > > Robert McBroom > There is progress of a sort. Put the F12 live on a USB drive. I found that I could get an alternate console when the GUI hung. from there I could mount the F8 partition and pull the xorg.conf file for a template. With some experimentation I was able to use the "vesa" driver and start GNOME Saved /opt, /home and /usr/local to backup. Hopefully that is enough to preserve the commercial software because the install from F12 Live wiped the existing filesystem even though I did not check format. The boot loader was supposed to go to /dev/sda7 but instead of going throuh my boot chain the F12 session usurped command. It did pick up the VISTA. Robert McBroom -- View this message in context: http://old.nabble.com/F12-Upgrade-Stumped-tp26722237p26757911.html Sent from the Fedora List mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
