Fedora Core IV on a DFI Lanparty NFII Ultra B

dalponis · 03-08-2006, 08:57 AM

I've tried getting rid of Windows twice. Each time, I was greeted with a swift kick in the face. Well, felt like it when I was installing Windows again...

Anyway, when I install Fedora Core IV, all goes well. When the system is booting up, right after:

"Starting Bluetooth Servies ... [OK]"

The system hangs. If I try an interactive startup, when it asks:

Load whatever? [y]es, [n]o, [c]ontinue

The only response my computer will take is a ctrl-alt-del. And it doesn't even reboot correctly. It stalls on unloading eth0.

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As a side note, I tried Fedora Core Five, test three. When I tried to install that my monitor almost caused me to have a seisure, then the system rebooted. LOL.
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I tried using the Fedora Core IV resuce CD to perhaps update my kernel. Maybe that would fix everything. After I boot that CD, I "chroot /mnt/sysimage", then "yum -y update".

Yum will not update the kernel, becuase of udev. Udev won't update becuase of something else, the list goes on. Strangely, If I boot Fedora Core IV on any other machine, "yum -y update" updates everything.

Here's my hardware:
DFI Lanparty NFII Ultra B
AMD XP 3200+
1536MB DDR RAM
SATA Seagate HDDs
Sound Blaster Audigy 2 ZS
Leadtek A400 Ultra (NVIDIA 6800 Ultra)

Well, there's my shame. Please, Linux guru's of here forums, save me from my enternal use of Windows.

zeitounator · 03-08-2006, 09:48 AM

My guess: problem comes from the nvidia card. Try this:

- Start your machine
- When grub shows up (booting fedora-blabla in x secs...) hit enter
- highlight the most recent kernell (should be default and you probably have only one) and hit 'e'
- hightlight the second line (kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.x.......) and hit 'e'
- go to the end of line and add a space and the number 3 (' 3')
- hit enter to validate and then 'b' to boot those commands

This will try to boot your machine at runlevel 3 (text only mode). If the machine boots and you finaly see a login shell, I guessed right

If it does not, just ignore the following

Next step:
- login as root
- Install the nvidia driver (the code below will get and install the latest x86 driver as of today 8th march 2006)

Code:

wget http://download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86/1.0-8178/NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-8178-pkg1.run
chmod u+x NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-8178-pkg1.run
./NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-8178-pkg1.run -nas

- Configure your Xserver to use the new driver. Easy first start:

Code:

nvidia-xconfig

see in depth instructions and options here)
- try to launch your Xserver

Code:

init 5

dalponis · 03-08-2006, 10:37 AM

To tell you the truth, that seems very likely. Damn...

I just setup my Windows OS again... Okay, when Core 5 comes out, the final version, I'll try again. I'll keep the URL to this thread.

Edit: My Spider sense is tingling! I think I tried this before...