[SOLVED] Fedora 10 install

[HyperD]

I've dual booted windows with fedora 10, but opted to install the GRUB loader on the fedora partition, and defaulted to loading windows. My problem is that I don't quite know how to load the fedora partition because it's going straight to windows.

[trq]

You'll need to hit Esc as it loads, this ought drop you into the grub menu, from there you can select fedora.

 

Once your in Linux you'll want to edit /boot/menu.list and add a default timeout.

 

timeout=5

 

This will ensure the grub menu is diplayed for 5 seconds on boot. You can also change the default OS. Take a look at man grub for more info.

[HyperD]

I can only seem to enter the windows boot manager with the OS and the diagnostic thing.

the other options I have are BIOS and Boot order.

[HyperD]

Okay, I've tried a reinstall, put grub on the MBR, but it seems I don't have a GUI.

I've tried running the "gdm" command, but I got a "no screens" error. My graphics chipset is GeForce 7150M, which I've read should worrk. Any reason why this or the actual installer won't default to GUI?

 

HP Pavilion dv6500

AMD Athlon 64 X2

2GB RAM

Nvidia GeForce 7150M

 

I'm using the x86 DVD, forgot my CPU was actually 64-bit.

[trq]

Have you tried startx? (I'm not a fedora user sorry).

[HyperD]

when I run the install anaconda came up with a X not found error.

When I ran startx, the no screens error came up.

When I ran gdm, I get a "maximum number of X instance failures reached" type error.

I hooked up ethernet and updated before this.

my initid is 5. I have no /boot/menu.list

[trq]

I have no /boot/menu.list

 

Sometimes you'd need to mount the partition to /boot

 

Anyway, sounds to me like there is no driver installed for your card. Can you see the relevent driver in....

 

modprobe -l

 

?

[HyperD]

I ran lspci found nVidia GeForce 7150M VGA Compatible controller.

what should I be piping through modprobe? I get tons of pages.

[trq]

modprobe -l | grep nvidia

[HyperD]

results are:

 

/lib/modules/2.6.27.5-117.fc10.i686/kernel/drivers/video/nvidia/nvidiafb.ko

 

and

............/video/backlight/mbp_nvidia_bl.ko

[HyperD]

startx gives me:

 

(EE) unable to locate/open configuration

(EE) open /dev/fb0 no such file or directory

(EE) no devices detected

fatal server error - no screens found

 

gdm says:

GdmLocalDisplayFactory: maximum number of X display failures reached.

 

I tried following the gentoo.org instructions for setting up X, and the only commands I could get to not throw an error were:

source /etc/profile and X -configure.

 

I then tested the new configure file X generated using:

X -config /root/xorg.conf.new

and a grey screen comes up, where it seems to lock

[trq]

Sounds like your driver isn't getting along well with your hardware.

 

Could we possibly see your xorg.conf ?

[serverman]

fedora has a nice little program called yum use it to download the legacy NV drivers that should fix it. freshrpms should have your drivers on it. it also should configure your xorg.conf for you once it installs. also can use rpmfusion its better 2 of the 3rd party rpms in one.

oh and here read this http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=204752

[HyperD]

Okay, I'll try that. In the meantime, here's my xorg.config.new

On the plus side, figuring out how to get it on a removable drive was a challenge, but after pounding away at it and a bit of manual reading, I now understand mounting and the basics of the fstab. 

Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier     "X.org Configured"
Screen      0  "Screen0" 0 0
InputDevice    "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
InputDevice    "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
EndSection

Section "Files"
ModulePath   "/usr/lib/xorg/modules"
FontPath     "catalogue:/etc/X11/fontpath.d"
FontPath     "built-ins"
EndSection

Section "Module"
Load  "extmod"
Load  "dri"
Load  "dbe"
Load  "glx"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier  "Keyboard0"
Driver      "kbd"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier  "Mouse0"
Driver      "mouse"
Option	    "Protocol" "auto"
Option	    "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
Option	    "ZAxisMapping" "4 5 6 7"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
Identifier   "Monitor0"
VendorName   "Monitor Vendor"
ModelName    "Monitor Model"
EndSection

Section "Device"
        ### Available Driver options are:-
        ### Values: <i>: integer, <f>: float, <bool>: "True"/"False",
        ### <string>: "String", <freq>: "<f> Hz/kHz/MHz"
        ### [arg]: arg optional
        #Option     "SWcursor"           	# [<bool>]
        #Option     "HWcursor"           	# [<bool>]
        #Option     "NoAccel"            	# [<bool>]
        #Option     "ShadowFB"           	# [<bool>]
        #Option     "VideoKey"           	# <i>
        #Option     "FlatPanel"          	# [<bool>]
        #Option     "FPDither"           	# [<bool>]
        #Option     "FPScale"            	# [<bool>]
        #Option     "FPTweak"            	# <i>
        #Option     "CBLocation"         	# <str>
        #Option     "CBSize"             	# <i>
        #Option     "Randr12"            	# [<bool>]
        #Option     "ScalingMode"        	# <str>
        #Option     "PrepareFinishAccess" 	# [<bool>]
Identifier  "Card0"
Driver      "nouveau"
VendorName  "nVidia Corporation"
BoardName   "GeForce 7150M"
BusID       "PCI:0:18:0"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen0"
Device     "Card0"
Monitor    "Monitor0"
SubSection "Display"
	Viewport   0 0
	Depth     1
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
	Viewport   0 0
	Depth     4
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
	Viewport   0 0
	Depth     8
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
	Viewport   0 0
	Depth     15
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
	Viewport   0 0
	Depth     16
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
	Viewport   0 0
	Depth     24
EndSubSection
EndSection

[trq]

'Driver' should be nvidia not nouveau

[HyperD]

So how do I fix that, should I download the proprietary driver and itstall that?

[HyperD]

got it. works perfectly now.