Lagamorph
20th October 2006, 10:08 PM
I'm trying to install Fedora Core 5 on my laptop in Dual Boot with Windows XP, and I'm not sure if something's gone wrong after the installation.
I deleted the D: Partition on my 100GB Hard Drive, which left the C Partition intact at 47GB, and left about 47GB of unpartitioned space. I then put in my burnt Fedora install DVD and restarted. The laptop booted from the DVD, and I used the Check Media facility to make sure the disk was alright, and the checker informed me the disc was fine, so I went ahead with the installation.
I installed the Boot thing (GRUB or something isn't it?), selecting XP as the default.
When I got to the parition menu I did the following,
1) Created a 2GB Swap Area
2) Partitioned the rest into an ext3, and set the mount to "/"
The installer was happy with that, and I went ahead and selected all the customise options (I selected to install everything except Web Server things) and then Fedora went ahead and installed, taking about 40 minutes, and there weren't any problems.
At the end, the DVD was ejected, and the installer said to remove any installation media and press the Restart button, so I did, and the computer restarted. My dual-boot screen came up, and I selected Fedora, then hit enter, and it started loading. However it seems to have gotten partway through loading and stopped. The laptop is now sat at,
"Starting udev: _" and the _ is just blinking on and off. It's been like that for about 30 minutes now.
Above that there are what I assume may be error messages. They say,
"Uncompressing Linux... Ok, booting the kernel.
PCI: Cannot allocate resource region 7 of bridge 0000:00:1c.0
PCI: Cannot allocate resource region 8 of bridge 0000:00:1c.0
PCI: Cannot allocate resource region 9 of bridge 0000:00:1c.0
PCI: Cannot allocate resource region 7 of bridge 0000:00:1c.1
PCI: Cannot allocate resource region 8 of bridge 0000:00:1c.1
PCI: Cannot allocate resource region 9 of bridge 0000:00:1c.1
PCI: Cannot allocate resource region 7 of bridge 0000:00:1c.2
PCI: Cannot allocate resource region 8 of bridge 0000:00:1c.2
PCI: Cannot allocate resource region 9 of bridge 0000:00:1c.2
PCI: Cannot allocate resource region 7 of bridge 0000:00:1c.3
PCI: Cannot allocate resource region 8 of bridge 0000:00:1c.3
PCI: Cannot allocate resource region 9 of bridge 0000:00:1c.3
ide0: I/O resource 0x1F0-0-1F7 not free.
ide0: ports already in use, skipping probe
Red Hat nash version 5.0.32 starting
INIT: version 2.86 booting
Welcome to Fedora Core
Press 'I' to enter interactive startup.
Setting clock (localtime): Fri Octo 20 19:32:56 BST 2006 [ OK ]
Starting udev: _
"
Am I supposed to type something in here? Am I supposed to insert the Fedora installation DVD? I tried typing in the Password the installer asked me for and hitting Enter, but nothing happened.
I deleted the D: Partition on my 100GB Hard Drive, which left the C Partition intact at 47GB, and left about 47GB of unpartitioned space. I then put in my burnt Fedora install DVD and restarted. The laptop booted from the DVD, and I used the Check Media facility to make sure the disk was alright, and the checker informed me the disc was fine, so I went ahead with the installation.
I installed the Boot thing (GRUB or something isn't it?), selecting XP as the default.
When I got to the parition menu I did the following,
1) Created a 2GB Swap Area
2) Partitioned the rest into an ext3, and set the mount to "/"
The installer was happy with that, and I went ahead and selected all the customise options (I selected to install everything except Web Server things) and then Fedora went ahead and installed, taking about 40 minutes, and there weren't any problems.
At the end, the DVD was ejected, and the installer said to remove any installation media and press the Restart button, so I did, and the computer restarted. My dual-boot screen came up, and I selected Fedora, then hit enter, and it started loading. However it seems to have gotten partway through loading and stopped. The laptop is now sat at,
"Starting udev: _" and the _ is just blinking on and off. It's been like that for about 30 minutes now.
Above that there are what I assume may be error messages. They say,
"Uncompressing Linux... Ok, booting the kernel.
PCI: Cannot allocate resource region 7 of bridge 0000:00:1c.0
PCI: Cannot allocate resource region 8 of bridge 0000:00:1c.0
PCI: Cannot allocate resource region 9 of bridge 0000:00:1c.0
PCI: Cannot allocate resource region 7 of bridge 0000:00:1c.1
PCI: Cannot allocate resource region 8 of bridge 0000:00:1c.1
PCI: Cannot allocate resource region 9 of bridge 0000:00:1c.1
PCI: Cannot allocate resource region 7 of bridge 0000:00:1c.2
PCI: Cannot allocate resource region 8 of bridge 0000:00:1c.2
PCI: Cannot allocate resource region 9 of bridge 0000:00:1c.2
PCI: Cannot allocate resource region 7 of bridge 0000:00:1c.3
PCI: Cannot allocate resource region 8 of bridge 0000:00:1c.3
PCI: Cannot allocate resource region 9 of bridge 0000:00:1c.3
ide0: I/O resource 0x1F0-0-1F7 not free.
ide0: ports already in use, skipping probe
Red Hat nash version 5.0.32 starting
INIT: version 2.86 booting
Welcome to Fedora Core
Press 'I' to enter interactive startup.
Setting clock (localtime): Fri Octo 20 19:32:56 BST 2006 [ OK ]
Starting udev: _
"
Am I supposed to type something in here? Am I supposed to insert the Fedora installation DVD? I tried typing in the Password the installer asked me for and hitting Enter, but nothing happened.
