 | | | asus mobo, fc5, nvidia chipset, and fixing hd | asus mobo, fc5, nvidia chipset, and fixing hd 2006-08-02 - By Rick Stevens
Back
On Wed, 2006-08-02 at 18:52 -0400, tyche wrote:
> recently had a friend give me his comp, and i tried to install
> fc5 x86_64 on it. the first problem i encountered was the
> hard drive had (according to anaconda) was that it had more
> than 1024 cylinders on it, 75000+ on a 40gb wd hd.
>
> got to a text screen, used fdisk x c 1024 w and rebooted the
> machine. still have the 75000 or so cylinders.
Not a problem. Read on.
>
> did some calling and found that the mobo had an nvidia chipset
> on it. it would appear that to install fc5 on this particular
> board, i have to build a driver disk with the proprietary
> nvidia drivers on it.
Not necessary for FC5 for normal operations. Install in text mode
only. FC5 includes a NIC driver for the nVidia chipset.
For GUI operations, you'll need to install the nvidia drivers or live
with VESA mode. To install the nvidia drivers, enable the nvidia yum
repository. I'd add the following two files to /etc/yum.repos.d:
-- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ------
livna-devel.repo:
[livna-development]
name=Livna for Fedora Core $releasever - $basearch - Development Tree
baseurl=
http://rpm.livna.org/fedora/development/$basearch/
http://livna.cat.pdx.edu/fedora/development/$basearch/
http://wftp.tu-chemnitz.de/pub/linux/livna/fedora/development/$basearch/
http://ftp-stud.fht-esslingen.de/pub/Mirrors/rpm.livna.org/fedora/development/
$basearch/
http://mirror.atrpms.net/livna/fedora/development/$basearch/
ftp://mirrors.tummy.com/pub/rpm.livna.org/fedora/development/$basearch/
failovermethod=priority
#mirrorlist=http://rpm.livna.org/mirrorlist-development
enabled=0
gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-livna
[livna-development-debuginfo]
name=Livna for Fedora Core $releasever - $basearch - Development Tree -
Debug
baseurl=
http://rpm.livna.org/fedora/development/$basearch/debug/
http://livna.cat.pdx.edu/fedora/development/$basearch/debug/
http://wftp.tu-chemnitz.de/pub/linux/livna/fedora/development/$basearch/debug/
http://ftp-stud.fht-esslingen.de/pub/Mirrors/rpm.livna.org/fedora/development/
$basearch/debug/
http://mirror.atrpms.net/livna/fedora/development/$basearch/debug/
ftp://mirrors.tummy.com/pub/rpm.livna.org/fedora/development/$basearch/debug/
failovermethod=priority
enabled=0
gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-livna
gpgcheck=1
[livna-development-source]
name=Livna for Fedora Core $releasever - $basearch - Development Tree -
Source
baseurl=
http://rpm.livna.org/fedora/development/SRPMS/
http://livna.cat.pdx.edu/fedora/development/SRPMS/
http://wftp.tu-chemnitz.de/pub/linux/livna/fedora/development/SRPMS/
http://ftp-stud.fht-esslingen.de/pub/Mirrors/rpm.livna.org/fedora/development
/SRPMS/
http://mirror.atrpms.net/livna/fedora/development/SRPMS/
ftp://mirrors.tummy.com/pub/rpm.livna.org/fedora/development/SRPMS/
failovermethod=priority
enabled=0
gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-livna
gpgcheck=1
-- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ------
livna.repo:
[livna]
name=Livna for Fedora Core $releasever - $basearch - Base
baseurl=
http://rpm.livna.org/fedora/$releasever/$basearch/
http://livna.cat.pdx.edu/fedora/$releasever/$basearch/
http://wftp.tu-chemnitz.de/pub/linux/livna/fedora/$releasever/$basearch/
http://ftp-stud.fht-esslingen.de/pub/Mirrors/rpm.livna.org/fedora/$releasever/
$basearch/
http://mirror.atrpms.net/livna/fedora/$releasever/$basearch/
ftp://mirrors.tummy.com/pub/rpm.livna.org/fedora/$releasever/$basearch/
failovermethod=priority
#mirrorlist=http://rpm.livna.org/mirrorlist-5 (See http://ist-5.ora-code.com)
enabled=1
gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-livna
[livna-debuginfo]
name=Livna for Fedora Core $releasever - $basearch - Debug
baseurl=
http://rpm.livna.org/fedora/$releasever/$basearch/debug/
http://livna.cat.pdx.edu/fedora/$releasever/$basearch/debug/
http://wftp.tu-chemnitz.de/pub/linux/livna/fedora/$releasever/$basearch/debug/
http://ftp-stud.fht-esslingen.de/pub/Mirrors/rpm.livna.org/fedora/$releasever/
$basearch/debug/
http://mirror.atrpms.net/livna/fedora/$releasever/$basearch/debug/
ftp://mirrors.tummy.com/pub/rpm.livna.org/fedora/$releasever/$basearch/debug/
failovermethod=priority
enabled=0
gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-livna
gpgcheck=1
[livna-source]
name=Livna for Fedora Core $releasever - $basearch - Source
baseurl=
http://rpm.livna.org/fedora/$releasever/SRPMS/
http://livna.cat.pdx.edu/fedora/$releasever/SRPMS/
http://wftp.tu-chemnitz.de/pub/linux/livna/fedora/$releasever/SRPMS/
http://ftp-stud.fht-esslingen.de/pub/Mirrors/rpm.livna.org/fedora/$releasever
/SRPMS/
http://mirror.atrpms.net/livna/fedora/$releasever/SRPMS/
ftp://mirrors.tummy.com/pub/rpm.livna.org/fedora/$releasever/SRPMS/
failovermethod=priority
enabled=0
gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-livna
gpgcheck=1
-- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ------
Once that's done, "yum install kmod-nvidia" to install the drivers.
Then run "system-config-display" to configure it.
> also have to get the hd back to 1024 cylinders. any help will
> be very gratefully appreciated.
The cylinder count is handled by BIOS. Make sure the drive is being
handled in LBA mode in the BIOS. The >1024 cylinder count is irrelevant
as long as your /boot partition is within the first 1024 cylinders or
you use grub as your boot loader in the MBR of the drive. The BIOS
on most older machines is incapable of accessing a cylinder >1023, but
grub isn't.
Example, on an nVidia-based Athlon at home:
[root@(protected) ~]# fdisk -l
Disk /dev/hda: 81.9 GB, 81964302336 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 9964 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hda1 * 1 131 1052226 83 Linux
/dev/hda2 132 653 4192965 83 Linux
/dev/hda3 654 914 2096482+ 83 Linux
/dev/hda4 915 9964 72694125 5 Extended
/dev/hda5 915 979 522081 82 Linux swap /
Solaris
/dev/hda6 980 9964 72171981 83 Linux
Works fine.
-- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- --
- Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens@(protected) -
- VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com -
- -
- Which is worse: ignorance or apathy? I don't know. Who cares? -
-- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- --
__ ____ ____ ____ ____ ____ ____ ____ ____ ____
Redhat-install-list mailing list
Redhat-install-list@(protected)
https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-install-list
To Unsubscribe Go To ABOVE URL or send a message to:
redhat-install-list-request@(protected)
Subject: unsubscribe
|
|
|