On Sun, 20 Nov 2011 23:43:30 -0800 Keith Lofstrom <[email protected]> wrote:
> [...] Or the edit window available > during grub2 boot when you hit "e" should show the "linux" line > (it didn't) so that it can be edited during bootup. The older > grub on my RHEL5 laptop permits this, and is a much easier way to > work around grub.conf typos. This may be a bug in grub2 or FC16. Odd. The "linux" line _is_ shown on my Dell Inspiron 9300 laptop. I wonder why it wasn't on John's machine. Is it now, after things were fixed? Grub2 seems to work well enough here. I have yet to change anything in it, but I'm sure I will -- I always do. Then I'll find out just how badly it sucks. Fortunately, I don't have to meddle with the boot setup much. BTW, subtle typos can cause just as much grief in Old Grub as then can in New Grub. I spent an entertaining hour or so (for certain values of 'entertaining') tracking down why my F14 system wouldn't boot. Turned out to be a one-character typo that I kept not seeing. *sigh* Like John, I had some difficulty getting the nVidia driver to work correctly. Turns out there is a set of incompatibilities with the driver, certain cards (the older GeForce Go series), and certain revs of the Linux kernel. I finally got things to work with a down rev kernel and nVidia driver. Fun times. The nouveau driver works fairly well, but it doesn't support the native resolution of the LCD, making the display rather fuzzy and distorted (wrong aspect ratio). That said, the new drivers, nVidia and nouveau, both work far better than the ones I had from F12. Smooth and clean, with no weird glitchy artifacts, which the older drivers had. > BTW, some may differ, but when I install redhat/fedora systems, > I usually go into custom partitioning and set my own partitions, > avoiding LVM. LVM is nice when it works, and permits all sorts > of fancy resizing of partitions across physical media, but it > is quite a bit more complicated to debug. For this and other > reasons, I set up my systems without LVM. Heh, I've always gone the custom partitioning route, ever since I started with Linux. I've found that troubleshooting and fixing an LVM2 setup isn't appreciably more difficult that a standard setup. I've had to fix both, and I find that a recent live CD is invaluable. When I loaded F16 on my laptop, I did something I've never done before -- set up all my partitions as encrypted, including the swap. It'll be interesting to see how this works, and what kind of troubles I find. Whee! Well, it's really late, and I'm starting to blather. Time to hit the sack. --Dale -- Bring on the lightning! We'll build a monster for fun! Bring on the lightning! We'll turn him loose when we're done! It's very frightening -- See how the villagers run! Pull that switch and catch the lightning -- Before the storm is done! -- from "Girl Genius," sung to the tune of the "Beer Barrel Polka" _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
