problem in booting fedora core

[RAVI GUPTA]

RESPECTED SIR 
          I AM STUDENT OF INFORMATION TECH. AND I HAVE BOUGHT A NEW PC HAVING FOLLOWING CONFIGURATION:

INTEL D915GAV MOTHERBOARD
INTEL 3.0 GHz PROCESSOR
512 MB RAM 
80 GB HDD

PROBLEM 1:
          WHEN I INSTALLED FEDORA CORE-2 THE WHOLE INSTALLATION WENT SMOOTHLY BUT AFTER THE COMPLETE INSTALLATION WHEN REBOOTING WAS DONE THE SYSTEM SHOWED BOOT LOADER ERROR AND WAS UNABLE TO DETECT HARD DISK. AFTER  MAKING CERTAIN ARRANGEMENT IT RAN ALSO BUT DURING BOOTING OF LINUX IT SHOWED UNSUPPORTED CHIPSET. AND THEN AGAIN AFTER RESTARTING THE COMPUTER IT AGAIN STARTED SHOWING BOOT LOADER ERROR.

PROBLEM 2:
          AND THEN WHEN I INSTALLED FEDORA CORE-3 AGAIN AFTER INSTALLATION WHEN I REBOOTED THE SYSTEM MY SYSTEM KEPT RESTARTING AGAIN AND AGAIN AND FINALLY STUCK TO SCREEN DISPLAYING :

GRUB Loading stage 2 .....
-

ALL THE GOOD AND INTELLIGENT PEOPLE PRESENT THERE PLEASE HELP ME OUT I AM REALLY IN BIG TROUBLE AS OUR INSTITUTE REALLY BACKUPS ON FEDORA CORE LINUX OPERATING SYSTEMS.
          WAITING FOR REPLY.

YOURS SINCERELY,
RAVI KANT GUPTA

[Marden P. Marshall]

I recently installed Fedora Core 3 on a new system based upon the Intel
D915GAV mother board with no problems.  The only thing that did not work
was the audio.  I suspect that you might have a bad D915GAV board.  My
configuration is as follows:

Intel D915GAV
P4-HT 3.2GHz
1 Gig DDR3200 RAM
160GB SATA HD

I wish that I had more to offer.

-Mardy

On Tue, 2004-12-28 at 17:31 +0000, RAVI GUPTA wrote:
> RESPECTED SIR 
>           I AM STUDENT OF INFORMATION TECH. AND I HAVE BOUGHT A NEW PC
> HAVING FOLLOWING CONFIGURATION:
>
> INTEL D915GAV MOTHERBOARD
> INTEL 3.0 GHz PROCESSOR
> 512 MB RAM 
> 80 GB HDD
>
> PROBLEM 1:
>           WHEN I INSTALLED FEDORA CORE-2 THE WHOLE INSTALLATION WENT
> SMOOTHLY BUT AFTER THE COMPLETE INSTALLATION WHEN REBOOTING WAS DONE
> THE SYSTEM SHOWED BOOT LOADER ERROR AND WAS UNABLE TO DETECT HARD
> DISK. AFTER  MAKING CERTAIN ARRANGEMENT IT RAN ALSO BUT DURING BOOTING
> OF LINUX IT SHOWED UNSUPPORTED CHIPSET. AND THEN AGAIN AFTER
> RESTARTING THE COMPUTER IT AGAIN STARTED SHOWING BOOT LOADER ERROR.
>
> PROBLEM 2:
>           AND THEN WHEN I INSTALLED FEDORA CORE-3 AGAIN AFTER
> INSTALLATION WHEN I REBOOTED THE SYSTEM MY SYSTEM KEPT RESTARTING
> AGAIN AND AGAIN AND FINALLY STUCK TO SCREEN DISPLAYING :
>
> GRUB Loading stage 2 .....
>   ALL THE GOOD AND INTELLIGENT PEOPLE PRESENT THERE PLEASE HELP
>
> ME OUT I AM REALLY IN BIG TROUBLE AS OUR INSTITUTE REALLY BACKUPS ON
> FEDORA CORE LINUX OPERATING SYSTEMS.
>           WAITING FOR REPLY.
>
> YOURS SINCERELY,
> RAVI KANT GUPTA
>
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[ron flory]

RAVI GUPTA wrote:
> PROBLEM 1:
>           WHEN I INSTALLED FEDORA CORE-2 THE WHOLE INSTALLATION WENT 
> SMOOTHLY BUT AFTER THE COMPLETE INSTALLATION WHEN REBOOTING WAS DONE THE 
> SYSTEM SHOWED BOOT LOADER ERROR AND WAS UNABLE TO DETECT HARD DISK. 
> AFTER  MAKING CERTAIN ARRANGEMENT IT RAN ALSO BUT DURING BOOTING OF 
> LINUX IT SHOWED UNSUPPORTED CHIPSET. AND THEN AGAIN AFTER RESTARTING THE 
> COMPUTER IT AGAIN STARTED SHOWING BOOT LOADER ERROR.
>
> PROBLEM 2:
>           AND THEN WHEN I INSTALLED FEDORA CORE-3 AGAIN AFTER 
> INSTALLATION WHEN I REBOOTED THE SYSTEM MY SYSTEM KEPT RESTARTING AGAIN 
> AND AGAIN AND FINALLY STUCK TO SCREEN DISPLAYING :
>
> GRUB Loading stage 2 .....

It sounds suspiciously like a setup, hard disk, or memory
problem.

* Are you overclocking the processor or the memory?
  * could your power supply be too small?
  * could you run processor/disk/ram diagnostics?

- Try reverting your BIOS settings to non-aggressive "safe"
    settings.
  - are you running the latest BIOS?
  - try a minimal install, with as few options as possible.
  - as an experiment to see if the hardware is usable in its
    current state, can you temporarily install RedHat 9.0
    Linux, or NT, or XP on that machine and have it run reliably?
        (no flames please, i did say "temporary" after all)

ron

[Phil Schaffner]

On Tue, 2004-12-28 at 13:06 -0600, RON FLORY wrote:
> RAVI GUPTA wrote:
> > PROBLEM 1:

Two suggestions unrelated to your technical problems:

1.  Do not use all CAPS.  This is the e-mail equivalent of shouting and
may be considered impolite.

2.  You are not asking about issues related to testing new Fedora
components.  The appropriate list for your questions would be
fedora-list: http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list

...
> > GRUB Loading stage 2 .....
>
> It sounds suspiciously like a setup, hard disk, or memory
> problem.
> Are you overclocking the processor or the memory?
> could your power supply be too small?
> could you run processor/disk/ram diagnostics?
> Try reverting your BIOS settings to non-aggressive "safe"
> settings.
> are you running the latest BIOS?
> try a minimal install, with as few options as possible.
> as an experiment to see if the hardware is usable in its
> current state, can you temporarily install RedHat 9.0
> Linux, or NT, or XP on that machine and have it run reliably?
>     (no flames please, i did say "temporary" after all)

All good suggestions.  Might consider running memtest from the FC3
install disk.  Let it run for an extended time as errors may not show up
immediately.

Could try booting Basilisk
http://www.linux4all.de/livecd/basilisk/1.40/README-basilisk-1.40.htm or
Knoppix http://www.knoppix.org/ CD-based distributions.

Good luck,
Phil

[Kyrre Ness Sjobak]

tir, 28.12.2004 kl. 18.31 skrev RAVI GUPTA:
> RESPECTED SIR 
>           I AM STUDENT OF INFORMATION TECH. AND I HAVE BOUGHT A NEW PC
> HAVING FOLLOWING CONFIGURATION:
>
> INTEL D915GAV MOTHERBOARD
> INTEL 3.0 GHz PROCESSOR
> 512 MB RAM 
> 80 GB HDD
>
> PROBLEM 1:
>           WHEN I INSTALLED FEDORA CORE-2 THE WHOLE INSTALLATION WENT
> SMOOTHLY BUT AFTER THE COMPLETE INSTALLATION WHEN REBOOTING WAS DONE
> THE SYSTEM SHOWED BOOT LOADER ERROR AND WAS UNABLE TO DETECT HARD
> DISK. AFTER  MAKING CERTAIN ARRANGEMENT IT RAN ALSO BUT DURING BOOTING
> OF LINUX IT SHOWED UNSUPPORTED CHIPSET. AND THEN AGAIN AFTER
> RESTARTING THE COMPUTER IT AGAIN STARTED SHOWING BOOT LOADER ERROR.
>
> PROBLEM 2:
>           AND THEN WHEN I INSTALLED FEDORA CORE-3 AGAIN AFTER
> INSTALLATION WHEN I REBOOTED THE SYSTEM MY SYSTEM KEPT RESTARTING
> AGAIN AND AGAIN AND FINALLY STUCK TO SCREEN DISPLAYING :
>
> GRUB Loading stage 2 .....
>   ALL THE GOOD AND INTELLIGENT PEOPLE PRESENT THERE PLEASE HELP
>
> ME OUT I AM REALLY IN BIG TROUBLE AS OUR INSTITUTE REALLY BACKUPS ON
> FEDORA CORE LINUX OPERATING SYSTEMS.
>           WAITING FOR REPLY.
>
> YOURS SINCERELY,
> RAVI KANT GUPTA

*D*O* *N*O*T* *W*R*I*T*E* *I*N* *A*L*L* *C*A*P*S*!*!*!*!*

Now, it couldn't be a disk partitioning problem? How is /boot located on
the disk? (and how is it generally partitioned?)