thesun
16th January 2008, 02:58 AM
GRUB is usually robust enough to handle most things -- now I'm stumped:
I have a Dell Inspiron 530 system, brand new, with dog slow Vista and things (sound, mouse, keyboard) works fine. It has the multicard reader (SD, CF, etc.) and a Dell multimedia keyboard, and a WinTV-HDR tuner card (which should be fine in Linux, I'm pretty sure). Not sure if any of that matters, but here's what's going wrong...
When I plop my DVD iso into the DVD drive and boot up, Anaconda starts up and begins walking me through: I get the "choose graphical install, fresh or upgrade" screen and choose that, then it loads a few drivers (usb-storage, ata_piix, etc.) and it almost hangs loading the ata_piix driver. After about 5 minutes it comes back to life and moves me to the keyboard selection (United States, English) and then asks how I want to install: Local CD/DVD, hard disk, etc. By that time, the keyboard is adding 1 extra stroke per keystroke. So hitting "Enter" is the equivalent of hitting "Enter Enter," "up arrow" equals "up arrow up arrow" and so on.
I choose "local CD/DVD" and that's where everything goes to all hell: I get a message saying it doesn't have a driver for that type of install (despite the fact that it's reading the DVD drive just fine, apparently) and it asks me to select a driver from a huge long list of options.
Anyone know what is happening? Is my DVD messed up? Or did Dell plop in a funky new configuration that's not supported? Is there a way to find the right SCSI driver and load it?
I'm totally lost. Not totally frustrated, because I've been using Linux since RH6.1 and know that these quirks come up from time to time. But any and all help would be greatly appreciated -- I need to know if I should waste time with what I have now or try other CDs or maybe Ubuntu (since that's what Dell uses). If anyone out there has a similar system with similar problems, please let me know what you did to get it going.
Many thanks in advance...
I have a Dell Inspiron 530 system, brand new, with dog slow Vista and things (sound, mouse, keyboard) works fine. It has the multicard reader (SD, CF, etc.) and a Dell multimedia keyboard, and a WinTV-HDR tuner card (which should be fine in Linux, I'm pretty sure). Not sure if any of that matters, but here's what's going wrong...
When I plop my DVD iso into the DVD drive and boot up, Anaconda starts up and begins walking me through: I get the "choose graphical install, fresh or upgrade" screen and choose that, then it loads a few drivers (usb-storage, ata_piix, etc.) and it almost hangs loading the ata_piix driver. After about 5 minutes it comes back to life and moves me to the keyboard selection (United States, English) and then asks how I want to install: Local CD/DVD, hard disk, etc. By that time, the keyboard is adding 1 extra stroke per keystroke. So hitting "Enter" is the equivalent of hitting "Enter Enter," "up arrow" equals "up arrow up arrow" and so on.
I choose "local CD/DVD" and that's where everything goes to all hell: I get a message saying it doesn't have a driver for that type of install (despite the fact that it's reading the DVD drive just fine, apparently) and it asks me to select a driver from a huge long list of options.
Anyone know what is happening? Is my DVD messed up? Or did Dell plop in a funky new configuration that's not supported? Is there a way to find the right SCSI driver and load it?
I'm totally lost. Not totally frustrated, because I've been using Linux since RH6.1 and know that these quirks come up from time to time. But any and all help would be greatly appreciated -- I need to know if I should waste time with what I have now or try other CDs or maybe Ubuntu (since that's what Dell uses). If anyone out there has a similar system with similar problems, please let me know what you did to get it going.
Many thanks in advance...
