Greetings everybody, I'm new to Pune GNU/Linux Users Group and excited to join these discussions.
I would like to share an interesting fact while installing Fedora 10 in the ardent hope that it would save someone 2-3 days and eliminate frustrations. First, let's see the machine that was to be setup. We are talking about a HCL Laptop with the following specifications: 1. ATI Radeon graphics card, 2GB system RAM, Intel T2080, 120GB HDD. 2. Windows XP SP1 OEM copy with SP3 applied, installed on /dev/sda1. It was activated over internet using the "Activate Windows" menu in Start > All Programs > Accessories > System Tools. 3. Fedora 10 on rest of the partition with the default layout. The plan was to use ext4. 4. It goes without saying that MS-Windows should be installed and activated first, followed by Fedora 10. Grub was installed on MBR. As soon as I installed Fedora 10, two problems were faced: 1. The system would freeze randomly after just 10-15 minutes of operation. 2. When trying to boot in MS-Windows, the Windows bootloader would flash blue screen and quickly reboot automatically. The solutions are as follows: 1. For Fedora 10 random lockup problem, upgrade to the latest successful builds for RPMs kernel and ATI X-Windows drivers, available on kojipkgs, rpm -Uvh http://kojipkgs.fedoraproject.org/packages/kernel/2.6.27.10/169.fc10/i686/kernel-2.6.27.10-169.fc10.i686.rpm rpm -Uvh http://kojipkgs.fedoraproject.org/packages/xorg-x11-drv-ati/6.9.0/63.fc10/i386/xorg-x11-drv-ati-6.9.0-63.fc10.i386.rpm 2. For MS-Windows, the solution was simpler than I had imagined. While booting, press F2 when the HCL logo is displayed to land into BIOS Setup and choose "Load Setup Defaults" i.e. press F9. Overall, the experience involved reformatting the hard disk half a dozen times, a significant number of Google searches, trial and error and sleepless nights. In the end, the solutions proved to be really simple, :) Fedora 10 rocks! It was worth all the efforts. Hope that helps. Best regards, Shailesh S. Khandekar http://vidagdha.wordpress.com -- ______________________________________________________________________ Pune GNU/Linux Users Group Mailing List: ([email protected]) List Information: http://plug.org.in/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/plug-mail Send 'help' to [email protected] for mailing instructions.
