Fedora Core Five Borked!

[Rick Stevens]

On Mon, 2006-06-26 at 05:37 -0700, Harold Hallikainen wrote:
> > My FC5 system died. It won't boot. It gets to a line that says:
> >
> > device-mapper: 4.6.0-ioctl (2006-02-17) initialised: dm-devel at redhat.com
> >
> > and just hangs. The system has mirrored sata_sil disks, with a couple IDE
> > disks and a DVD/RW drive.
> >
> > Apparently, from my testing and messing around, it's after a nightly yum
> > update that the system quit booting. I reinstalled twice now. The sytem
> > rebooted and worked fine, then I did
> >
> > yum update
> >
> > which updated over 600 packages and the system wouldn't boot the next time
> > I
> > tried to reboot. So, this time I haven't updated it and it's booted
> > several
> > times just fine. I think I'll go ahead and let it update, then not shut it
> > down until a few more updates of things... I did find a google (one hit)
> > that
> > stated something about using devel repos. There's one for fedora, which
> > I've
> > renamed and I suspect that might be my problem, so may do an update
> > without
> > those enabled.
> >
> > So, what's the general concensus, if any, on this issue?
> >
> > TIA,
> >
> > Karl
> 
> 
> I earlier posted a question asking about a Linux equivalent of Norton
> Ghost (thanks for the responses!). Instead of patiently waiting for
> responses and saving an image of the hard drive in my laptop, I went ahead
> and tried an FC5 update. After the install, it complained about some PCI
> problem (I had problems like this previously with kernel updates) and it
> would not run the X server. I could not "update" back to FC4, so I'm now
> doing a fresh install. So... guess it doesn't work with everything! This
> is an HP Athalon laptop.

I might be able to help here.  I have an HP ZV6116US Athlon-64 laptop.
The "can't reserve PCI blah" stuff is innocuous...don't worry about it.
As to your X problem, it's most likely the nVidia driver.  Make sure you
install the livna nVidia driver.  If you use the livna fglrx driver for
x86_64, note that it is borked, but X will run without GL acceleration
despite the message that's generated.

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