Fedora Core Five Borked!

[Harold Hallikainen]

> On Mon, 2006-06-26 at 05:37 -0700, Harold Hallikainen wrote:
>> > My FC5 system died. It won't boot. It gets to a line that says:
>> >
>> > device-mapper: 4.6.0-ioctl (2006-02-17) initialised:
>> dm-devel at redhat.com
>> >
>> > and just hangs. The system has mirrored sata_sil disks, with a couple
>> IDE
>> > disks and a DVD/RW drive.
>> >
>> > Apparently, from my testing and messing around, it's after a nightly
>> yum
>> > update that the system quit booting. I reinstalled twice now. The
>> sytem
>> > rebooted and worked fine, then I did
>> >
>> > yum update
>> >
>> > which updated over 600 packages and the system wouldn't boot the next
>> time
>> > I
>> > tried to reboot. So, this time I haven't updated it and it's booted
>> > several
>> > times just fine. I think I'll go ahead and let it update, then not
>> shut it
>> > down until a few more updates of things... I did find a google (one
>> hit)
>> > that
>> > stated something about using devel repos. There's one for fedora,
>> which
>> > I've
>> > renamed and I suspect that might be my problem, so may do an update
>> > without
>> > those enabled.
>> >
>> > So, what's the general concensus, if any, on this issue?
>> >
>> > TIA,
>> >
>> > Karl
>>
>>
>> I earlier posted a question asking about a Linux equivalent of Norton
>> Ghost (thanks for the responses!). Instead of patiently waiting for
>> responses and saving an image of the hard drive in my laptop, I went
>> ahead
>> and tried an FC5 update. After the install, it complained about some PCI
>> problem (I had problems like this previously with kernel updates) and it
>> would not run the X server. I could not "update" back to FC4, so I'm now
>> doing a fresh install. So... guess it doesn't work with everything! This
>> is an HP Athalon laptop.
>
> I might be able to help here.  I have an HP ZV6116US Athlon-64 laptop.
> The "can't reserve PCI blah" stuff is innocuous...don't worry about it.
> As to your X problem, it's most likely the nVidia driver.  Make sure you
> install the livna nVidia driver.  If you use the livna fglrx driver for
> x86_64, note that it is borked, but X will run without GL acceleration
> despite the message that's generated.
>

Thanks Rick! When the "can't reserve PCI" stuff first started showing up
(after an FC4 kernel update), my wireless ndiswrapper stuff stopped
working. I went back to a previous version of the kernel and the errors
went away and the wireless started working. On video, I've been able to
use the ATI driver. The machine is something in the ZV6000 series (they
don't put the full model number on the case), but I'll have to look at the
exact model when I get home. Do you have FC5 working on your machine
(including wireless)?

THANKS!

Harold


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