problem in installing redhat linux 9 on compaq presario 2580us

[Sridhar Nori]

hi all,

I atlast had to get here to ask for help. I am trying to make my compaq 
presario 2580us laptop multibooting. I want to explain my problem with all 
the background information that might be relevanant to my problem. so please 
bear with me.

I made my compaq laptop 2580us multibooting. i am able to parallelly boot 
into windows 2003 server, windows xp pro and linux 7.3

i had several problems in installing linux 7.3 with my harddisk as it was 
not detecting it. i after a llot of effort found out that it was to do 
something with the dma by reading material on the internet and gave the 
prior booting commnad ide=nodma and it was booting up with. during 
installation in the xwindow configuration i have not selected the default 
monitor and graphics card it gave but instead took the closest one that was 
to match with my laptop graphics card and the make and model. but the 
xwindow did never start up and it gave me a fatal error that it was not able 
to display. so i run Xconfigurator command and try to change the options. 
but still nothing seem to be working. but anyway i am going fine with the 
text mode so i started learning slowly the commands and how to communicate 
with the kernel in the text mode.

Now i want the graphics mode to work. as nothing was happenning with the 7.3 
i thought linux 9 might have the correct graphics installation. so i up the 
linux cd in my cd-rom and restart the computer. this time it is not with the 
DMA it is giving problem with. when i get the graphics mode the installation 
hangs without any response showing on the screen

" loading hci1394 drivers " and the laptop hangs on. before when i was 
installing linux 7.3 it use to hang giving in the text mode

" hard disk partion check: "

but at that time ide=nodma command worked and the installation went on after 
that. but no proior booting command seems to be working!!

Please can anyone suggest something.

my windows server 2003 and xp pro are workign perfectly fine with every 
device on my laptop

many thanks for any help and suggestion and thought of your's

Best Regards

S.Nori


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