garfield1228

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I have installed fc5 on my new hp dv5000 laptop which comes with a centrino core duo precessor, It instlled without any errors but during first boot it freezes at starting udev:...
Uncompressing Linux... Ok, booting the kernel

PCI: Cannot allocate resourse region 7 of bridge 0000:00:1c.0
PCI: Cannot allocate resourse region 8 of bridge 0000:00:1c.0
PCI: Cannot allocate resourse region 9 of bridge 0000:00:1c.0
PCI: Cannot allocate resourse region 7 of bridge 0000:00:1c.1
PCI: Cannot allocate resourse region 8 of bridge 0000:00:1c.1
PCI: Cannot allocate resourse region 9 of bridge 0000:00:1c.1
PCI: Cannot allocate resourse region 7 of bridge 0000:00:1c.2
PCI: Cannot allocate resourse region 8 of bridge 0000:00:1c.2
PCI: Cannot allocate resourse region 9 of bridge 0000:00:1c.2

Red Hat nash version 5.0.32 starting
Welcome to Fedora Core
Press 'I' to enter interactive startup
Setting clock (localtime): Fri Apr 7........................ [OK]
Starting udev:... <------- at this point my computer freezes completely

can someone tell me how to go ab it.

lebabyg

Interesting. This sounds like an issue with the FC5 kernel on your laptop. Is this the first time you've installed a linux distro, or have you updated the kernel?? If it is your first time, i'd suggest using FC4 as FC5 is still in development from the way i understand it. Have a look at this https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla....cgi?id=172916

The solution probably involves recompiling the kernel. Try switching to another distro or to FC4 and see if that helps.
Regards,
Graham

garfield1228

thanx lebabyg for the reply, yes this the first time i am installing FC5 on my laptop. I have triedinstalling FC4 but it also gets freezed at starting pcmcia services and when i start by appnding to boot option: noapic acpi=off still it didnt work.
But luckily its working working properly for FC5 for my prev problem with the above boot options. I am able to successfully log in. But now the problem is the screen resolution by default is 800x600 and my laptop is widescreen 15.4" it has a nvidia GeForece 7400 Go 256MB grafix card accelerator. Is their anyway i can improve my resolution and how can i detect my intel pro 3945abg wireless card to connect to internet.

lebabyg

hey,
I'm not familiar with nvidia drivers, but i know you can sort them out. Check out this website http://stanton-finley.net/fedora_cor...ion_notes.html
this has notes on FC4 and FC5. Its an extremely good resource for fedora, and it says how to go about configuring your monitor (and installing nvidia drivers). In terms of wireless, fedora is an absolute nob when it comes to it, but you can get it working (i've got 2 wireless cards working with fedora so far although not at the same time). The first thing to do would be to find out what chipset you are using from the manufacturers website. If you're lucky there will be a linux driver, the rt2500 chipset has one at serialmonkey. If you're not, you'll have to use ndiswrapper. Don't know how familiar you are with it, but its pretty good, works on low-latency kernels. Have a luck at this particularly the red text!! http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...d.php?t=420910
the most important bit from a fedora perspective is the modprobe -m. This works brilliantly on FC4 but not sure bout FC5. Good luck lad!!
Regards,
Graham

garfield1228

thanx Graham, i ll try tht out

tamisoft

Hey,

same happened here. All you need to do is boot the DVD again in linux rescue mode. Then after it mounts the previously installed fc5, do a chroot /mnt/sysimage and a yum update.

And the problem will be gone.
Actually the udev is the one hanging.

Levi

lebabyg

What's the commmand for booting into rescue mode then Levi?

tamisoft

At the Fedora screen from the DVD type: linux rescue

beebopbogo

I had the same problem on my Acer Aspire 5670 installing FC4 for the first time. Here's what fixed that freezing problem on bootup.

Boot up in single user mode. I use grub as my boot loader, so when it came up, I pushed 'e' to edit the linux boot, then hit 'e' again after selecting the second line of code (the line with the most instructions) and added a space then "single" without the quotes to the end of it. In grub, this editing is temporary until the next boot, so don't worry about screwing things up. After you've added "single", just enter out of it and hit 'b' to boot up linux. This whole paragraph was just to boot into single user mode. Lilo may be slightly different.

At the shell prompt, edit '/etc/pcmcia/config.opts' file. You'll need to replace one line with another:
Replace:
include port 0x100-0xcff (the hex code may be slightly different...)
With:
include port 0x100-0x4ff, port 0xc00-0xcff

Save it, reboot, and voila: fixed. I'm not sure exactly what this accomplishes (I read it on some forum somewhere. Be sure to copy it for next time you install) so if someone can explain it, lemme know! Some sort of memory allocation maybe?


So FC4 works fine on my Acer, but now I can't get FC5 to do its first boot after the install. It keeps freezing at "starting udev..."

If someone has a fix, post it please. It can't even get past the block in single-user mode. (Although I am able to load the rescue disc, mount the partitions, and edit files that way.)

Thanks!

Beebop

tamisoft

single user mode<>rescue mode.

As I suppose you managed to install fc5 and the first boot fails. That means you can start the computer from the install dvd with linux rescue, and do the yum update thing, as I posted above.

But you might wanna give a try to fc6 I'm sure that won't have any problem loading.

Levi