[linux-help] Re: Linux has errors on setup

[Jeff Vian <jvian10@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

I still believe Jami's problem may be with the brain-dead disk druid or 
the auto-partitioning.
They are both brain-dead and that is why I use fdisk.

I had similar problems and his description of the fact that it seemed to 
create  7 partitions but he did not know what they were or why they were 
all there fits that theory.
On a drive that size he really only needs 3 partitions --- /, swap, and 
/home.

According to his original description, it would not boot after 
completing the install. It hung with a blank screen implying unable to 
load the kernel.

Another thing Jami needs to be aware of is that $windows CANNOT access a 
Linux partition, although the reverse works flawlessly.  He said the 
drive had partitions created from c to i, implying he tried to read it 
in windows. The partitions can be seen (as long as there is only one 
primary partition) but cannot be accessed from windows.


bruce wrote:

>>>From: "bruce" <bbales@xxxxxxx>
>>>
>>>>To: <linux-help@xxxxxxxxx>
>>>>Sent: Sunday, September 22, 2002 7:18 PM
>>>>Subject: [linux-help] Re: Linux has errors on setup
>>>>
>>>>>When you start the install, you get a page of options.  I
>>>>>believe the first one is "Press enter for a graphic
>>>>>installation."  One of the other choices is to type in
>>>>>"expert" as I recall.  Don't do that.  Type "linux
>>>>>mem=256m" and hit enter.  By the way, you said in your
>>>>>first post you had 512k of DDR memory - I assume that is
>>>>>512M.
>>>>>
>>Unless there is some problem with linux detecting memory,
>>NEVER enter mem= I have heard that doing that will cause
>>problems if linux is detecting the memory correctly.
>>
>>Basically, just hit enter, don't worry about mem= or even
>>typing linux, unless you know what you are doing, because the
>>way redhat does it the expert option disables all sorts of
>>auto-probing, so you (in terms of figuring out hardware)
>>might as well be using Debian (at least one of the older
>>ones, like last release, haven't tried woody)
>>
>
>Notice I said "Don't type expert."  Apparently RH7.2 Linux does 
>have a problem recognizing the amount of memory 'available' 
>when some of it is shared with the video card.  I had three 
>identical machines (800MHz Athlon with 60GB disk and 128MB 
>memory) which refused (most of the time) to install RH7.2.  
>They all installed perfectly and have been running 24/7 for 
>eight months after I used "Linux mem=64m" to start the install. 
> 
>
>RH7.0 and 7.1 didn't have this problem, but lacked some of the 
>drivers I needed.
>
>I appreciate the warning and information about using "expert."  
>I did try expert one time, but soon found out I was not an 
>expert.
>bruce
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