Problems installing Fedora Core 3 on Gateway P2

[Brian Truter]

On 8/10/05, larryharriman at affordableitresources.com
<larryharriman at affordableitresources.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I am a linux newbie - I am a convert from Windows 2000 and  XP and .NET
> programming(still doing that for my day job). I am trying to install Fedora
> Core 3 to a old Gateway someone gave me. It is a Pentium 2, 300 mhz machine
> with 320 MB of RAM. It has two drives, one is a 10 gig drive(Primary) and a
> secondary drive that has 2 gig.
> 
> I first tried the auto partioning in the fedora 3 install wizard, it seemed
> to pick every correctly but after a successful install when the machine goes
> to reboot it hangs with just a blinking cursor at the top of the screen. I
> can't access a command prompt to do anything.
> 
> I even tried reinstalling it and manually creating my partitions - that did
> not work either. One guy here at work who is a linux guy, said it might be
> an issue with the hard drive being so big(since the 10 gig was probably
> added later) and the bios needs some type of overlay program in the first
> partition. XP had no problem with it, but he said it might be because XP was
> fooling the bios by making it think a bigger drive was smaller.
> 
> I used to have Windows XP running on this machine before I wiped it to
> install Fedora, and XP ran just fine.
> 
> Please any help you could offer would be greatly appreciated.
> 
> Larry
> 
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Did you configure Grub (or LILO) during install?