Fedora Core 3 available, FC1 dropped
Fedora Core 3 available, FC1 dropped
Posted Nov 9, 2004 19:59 UTC (Tue) by elanthis (guest, #6227)In reply to: Fedora Core 3 available, FC1 dropped by cconvey
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I get the hang at configuring kernel parameters to. I've been following Rawhide for a while, it started a couple weeks ago.
I found that if I boot into single user mode that step will not hang. I can then telinit to run level 5.
Actually, it's not the configuring kernel parameter step that fails. If you disable that in the script, the next step fails instead. I just haven't been able to pinpoint the problem to come up with the actual/correct fix.
Posted Nov 9, 2004 20:17 UTC (Tue)
by cconvey (guest, #11996)
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Posted Nov 11, 2004 1:02 UTC (Thu)
by QuantumKnot (guest, #25967)
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I boot into single mode, install the NVIDIA driver, then continue and it works. I see the nvidia logo pop up and gdm comes up fine. Then when I reboot FC3, then it stalls in the middle (due to rhgb). When I turn off rhgb in grub, it makes it to the text login screen, but X cant start and comes up with an error message saying it cant initialise the nvidia kernel module or something.
The only way to rectify this temporarily is to again login as root and install the NVIDIA driver. If you do it this way, you'll get the "NVIDIA license taints kernel" message, which is what I saw in FC2. However, you don't see this message when installing the driver in single mode. However, just because it 'taints the kernel' doesnt mean much since once you reboot, again we have the same problem. :(
So I've traced it down to something wrong with the NVIDIA kernel module not getting loaded properly during startup.
Posted Nov 11, 2004 1:29 UTC (Thu)
by QuantumKnot (guest, #25967)
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http://fedora.redhat.com/docs/udev/
Look down at the bottom.
Posted Nov 15, 2004 5:03 UTC (Mon)
by dhonn (guest, #26036)
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http://www.dhonnlushine.com/fc3-nvidia.html
You don't have to play with udev until the drivers get fixed.
Is it possible that the reason you're technique works is that you sidestep rhgb? (I don't know whether or not you do sidestep it.)Fedora Core 3 available, FC1 dropped
The NVIDIA problems seems to be related to the kernel modules disappearing or getting corrupted after reboot.Fedora Core 3 available, FC1 dropped
Found this fix:Fedora Core 3 available, FC1 dropped
I have a work around for fc3/nvidia that works perfect:Fedora Core 3 available, FC1 dropped