Can't boot Fedora 10 live cd or install Fedora 10 with install DVD

dth4h · #1 26th May 2009, 08:05 AM

I just got a new laptop a HP G60-243CL and I want to install Fedora on it. Well since Fedora 11 is coming out soon I figured I would wait and just use Vista for a few days instead of configuring everything on Fedora twice. Well I figured that I would boot the Fedora 10 live cd to check the hardware compatibility. Well I put in the live cd and it wont even boot!! So I go through all the trouble of installing Fedora 10 and wiping out Vista and everything to see if Fedora 10 would boot if it was installed on my hard drive. So I put in the install DVD and the graphical installer wont start so I have to use the text installer. So when the installation is done Fedora 10 boots up but in to text mode so I see a screen that says localhost login and on that screen it keep running the command ForceXPAon: 0. Here is some info that might help:

1. I put in the Ubuntu live cd and everything worked fine. No problems.
2. According to lspci my graphics card is an nVidia Corporation Device 0845 (rev a2)
3. Ubuntu live cd says my screen resolution is 1280 x 720 (16:9) but I remember that Vista said it was something like 1300 x 700

4. Here is what my lspci file had in it:

00:00.0 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation Device 0754 (rev a2)
00:01.0 ISA bridge: nVidia Corporation Device 075e (rev a2)
00:01.1 SMBus: nVidia Corporation Device 0752 (rev a1)
00:01.3 Co-processor: nVidia Corporation Device 0753 (rev a2)
00:01.4 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation Device 0568 (rev a1)
00:02.0 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation Device 077b (rev a1)
00:02.1 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation Device 077c (rev a1)
00:04.0 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation Device 077d (rev a1)
00:04.1 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation Device 077e (rev a1)
00:06.0 IDE interface: nVidia Corporation Device 0759 (rev a1)
00:07.0 Audio device: nVidia Corporation Device 0774 (rev a1)
00:08.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation Device 075a (rev a1)
00:09.0 IDE interface: nVidia Corporation Device 0ad0 (rev a2)
00:0a.0 Ethernet controller: nVidia Corporation Device 0760 (rev a2)
00:0b.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation Device 0569 (rev a1)
00:14.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation Device 077a (rev a1)
00:18.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Family 11h HyperTransport Configuration (rev 40)
00:18.1 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Family 11h Address Map
00:18.2 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Family 11h DRAM Controller
00:18.3 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Family 11h Miscellaneous Control
00:18.4 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Family 11h Link Control
02:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation Device 0845 (rev a2)
07:00.0 Network controller: Atheros Communications Inc. Device 002a (rev 01)

5. It said my dmesg file was empty. Here is what is in my boot.log file:

Could not detect stabilization, waiting 10 seconds.

Reading all physical volumes. This may take a while...

Found volume group "VolGroup00" using metadata type lvm2

2 logical volume(s) in volume group "VolGroup00" now active

Welcome to [0;34mFedora[0;39m

Press 'I' to enter interactive startup.

Starting udev: %G[60G[[0;32m OK [0;39m]

Setting hostname localhost.localdomain: [60G[[0;32m OK [0;39m]

Setting up Logical Volume Management: 2 logical volume(s) in volume group "VolGroup00" now active

[60G[[0;32m OK [0;39m]

Checking filesystems

/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00: clean, 207083/19218432 files, 2488923/76849152 blocks

/boot: recovering journal

/boot: clean, 36/50200 files, 19752/200780 blocks

[60G[[0;32m OK [0;39m]

Remounting root filesystem in read-write mode: [60G[[0;32m OK [0;39m]

Mounting local filesystems: [60G[[0;32m OK [0;39m]

Enabling local filesystem quotas: [60G[[0;32m OK [0;39m]

Enabling /etc/fstab swaps: [60G[[0;32m OK [0;39m]

Entering non-interactive startup

Enabling ondemand cpu frequency scaling: [60G[[0;32m OK [0;39m]

ip6tables: Applying firewall rules: [60G[[0;32m OK [0;39m]

iptables: Applying firewall rules: [60G[[0;32m OK [0;39m]

Starting auditd: [60G[[0;32m OK [0;39m]

Starting system logger: [60G[[0;32m OK [0;39m]

Starting irqbalance: [60G[[0;32m OK [0;39m]

Starting rpcbind: [60G[[0;32m OK [0;39m]

Starting NFS statd: [60G[[0;32m OK [0;39m]

Starting RPC idmapd: [60G[[0;32m OK [0;39m]

Starting system message bus: [60G[[0;32m OK [0;39m]

Starting acpi daemon: [60G[[0;32m OK [0;39m]

Starting HAL daemon: [60G[[0;32m OK [0;39m]

Starting PC/SC smart card daemon (pcscd): [60G[[0;32m OK [0;39m]

Setting network parameters... [60G[[0;32m OK [0;39m]

Starting NetworkManager daemon: [60G[[0;32m OK [0;39m]

Starting portreserve: [60G[[0;32m OK [0;39m]

Starting setroubleshootd: [60G[[0;32m OK [0;39m]

Starting Bluetooth services:[60G[[0;32m OK [0;39m]

Starting sshd: [60G[[0;32m OK [0;39m]

Starting sendmail: [60G[[0;32m OK [0;39m]

Starting sm-client: [60G[[0;32m OK [0;39m]

Starting console mouse services: [60G[[0;32m OK [0;39m]

Starting crond: [60G[[0;32m OK [0;39m]
[60G[[0;32m OK [0;39m]

Starting kerneloops:[60G[[0;32m OK [0;39m]

Starting atd: [60G[[0;32m OK [0;39m]
[60G[[0;32m OK [0;39m]

Starting Avahi daemon... [60G[[0;32m OK [0;39m]

Starting cups: [60G[[0;32m OK [0;39m]

dth4h · #2 26th May 2009, 11:50 PM

ok before I go through the trouble of posting any more of this really long file can somebody please tell me why this file is really long and does not look anything like it does in a terminal when I type /sbin/lspci?!

Iron_Mike · #3 27th May 2009, 04:20 AM

Are you sure that is what your lspci output looks like? Here's mine:

00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 82855PM Processor to I/O Controller (rev 21)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82855PM Processor to AGP Controller (rev 21)
00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) USB UHCI Controller #1 (rev 03)
00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) USB UHCI Controller #2 (rev 03)
00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) USB UHCI Controller #3 (rev 03)
00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-M) USB2 EHCI Controller (rev 03)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge (rev 83)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801DBM (ICH4-M) LPC Interface Bridge (rev 03)
00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801DBM (ICH4-M) IDE Controller (rev 03)
00:1f.5 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) AC'97 Audio Controller (rev 03)
00:1f.6 Modem: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) AC'97 Modem Controller (rev 03)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc RV350 [Mobility Radeon 9600 M10]
02:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8169 Gigabit Ethernet (rev 10)
02:02.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Texas Instruments TSB43AB21 IEEE-1394a-2000 Controller (PHY/Link)
02:03.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 2915ABG [Calexico2] Network Connection (rev 05)
02:09.0 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCI1620 PC Card Controller (rev 01)
02:09.1 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCI1620 PC Card Controller (rev 01)
02:09.2 System peripheral: Texas Instruments PCI1620 Firmware Loading Function (rev 01)

Taken from a terminal window, using "lspci"

Mike

unamanic · #4 27th May 2009, 04:32 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by dth4h

ok before I go through the trouble of posting any more of this really long file can somebody please tell me why this file is really long and does not look anything like it does in a terminal when I type /sbin/lspci?!

That is because you copied /sbin/lspci (executable) instead of redirecting the output of lspci to a file ( /sbin/lspci > lspci_out.txt ) and copying that file over.

dth4h · #5 27th May 2009, 06:10 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by unamanic

That is because you copied /sbin/lspci (executable) instead of redirecting the output of lspci to a file ( /sbin/lspci > lspci_out.txt ) and copying that file over.

Thank you sooo much unamanic. Now I will post what lspci really says and erase all that mess!

dth4h · #6 27th May 2009, 09:46 AM

ok I am halfway there. I got the nVidia graphics driver installed so now I can login then use the command startx and now I have a graphical desktop environment. And then I made it so that when Fedora boots up it goes to a graphical loginscreen instead of being a text one so I don't have to keep starting x when I login but when I boot up Fedora plymouth goes REALLY slow how do I fix that? I know that when I got my graphical desktop environment to work the graphics went really slow then I fixed it my installing the latest nVidia driver and now it works great but how do I get plymouths graphics to not be slow? Do I have to install another driver or something?

Iron_Mike · #7 27th May 2009, 12:07 PM

There are several ways to speed up the boot process, namely by disabling services not required, here is a good guide.

http://www.mjmwired.net/resources/mjm-services-f10.html

dth4h · #8 28th May 2009, 07:20 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Iron_Mike

There are several ways to speed up the boot process, namely by disabling services not required, here is a good guide.

http://www.mjmwired.net/resources/mjm-services-f10.html

That is not what I meant. The Time it takes to boot up is fine. I mean the plymouth graphical is slow as in I can see it repainting the screen. The quality of plymouths graphics is really bad. Do you see what I mean now? Where can I post a video to show you what I mean?