Try, try, try… and magic! ;o)

For some reason, I start over again. I thought: if i have spent some hours of my life with this, why not try another? And gods hear me! and i’m apologizing after my last post.

my solution:
install prompt: linux nofirewire
I delete the ext3 partition and i create it again. So, i have to reinstall red hat (server type installation for my purposes) and grub again (this time i wrote ‘nofirewire’ on the textfield of extra-parameters, in anticipation to modify grub.conf), and boot disket and reboot…

I pressed ‘i’ key after the screen shows something about swap… (initxxx begins just after that) and i hold on until the message of “press ‘I’ key for interactive…” appears. When it start to ask me if i want to load kudzu i wrote ‘n’ for that one, and ‘s’ (default) in all next questions.

For dual boot:
I login as root and i execute:
mkdir /mnt/floppy
mount /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy
dd if=/dev/hda1 of=/mnt/floppy/linux.bin bs=512 count=1

# hda1: where win xp pro is installed, hda2: where red hat is.
# that is for dual boot, more info on
# http://www.piensa.com/piensa/foro_principiantes/1124906177/index_html
# linux.bin has to be copied to c:\ and the boot.ini file in windows has to be updated with one line at
# the end: c:\linux.bin = “Red hat 9″, but this is extra info

for fix the autocheck new hardware at loading:
chkconfig –level 3 kudzu off
chkconfig –level 5 kudzu off

and for fix the shutdown process (the first time shutdown crashed at disabling/stoping pcmcia…):
u have to rename file ‘ohci1394.o’ to ‘_ohci1394.o’ as ricky said (August 24th, 2003 at 8:02 pm in this page)

well, it works, the graphics are 800×600 but it is enough at the moment. Maybe some day i’ll tell you about oracle in red hat… that’s my next objective.

Thanks to all.

I have installed knoppix “a la mexicana” (something like: knoppix mexican way) and knoppix 3.7 (dowloaded from linuxiso.org) a few months ago and those distros didn´t have any problem to install, even i can say that they (knoppix) recognizes my wi-fi (LAN-express ieee 802.11 pci adapter).

I’m trying to install red hat (server mode) ’cause i have to install oracle 9i (or informix or db2) to a school project, i have to “join” or work with at least two machines running oracle, one in linux and other in windows. But that’s another problem.

So, i have readed that oracle is supported in red hat, then, i’m in this trouble installing.

I can install Red Hat 9 in my hp laptop ze5447la (also i have windows xp pro), but i have the same problem in the first booting (only i can boot with a 3 1/2″ disket).

I’ve tried: linux nofirewire, linux nofirewire noprobe, nousb, nopcmia… and combinations between them, and the only “fix” i have seen is with nofirewire (ohci1394 driver), but it crash a few seconds later, at “Checking new hardware” (Búsqueda de nuevo hardware in spanish).

I have also tried the ‘i’ key (like crazy) in interactive start up and it seems dont´t work. I understand that I have to run the “chkconfig kudzu off” or “chkconfig -level 3 kudzu off” for fixing this problem, but i’m wondering: how i’m going to run that command if i can’t load the os fully?

Could any one else help me. I’m not expert, i’m maybe a newbie , but i want to learn linux.

P.S. Excuse my poor english, if anyone speaks spanish your help will be appreciated. Thanks from Veracruz, Mexico.

P.S.2: if i can install red hat later…, can i work with my ethernet? it recognizes it? (my eterhnet is a National Semicondutor dp83815)

i need to find again, then will do.

particularly tough since i don’t run this anymore.

i think i had a lot of luck with fedora (this was FC1) on this laptop, as far as the X11 config. it Just Worked.

j.

I ran into the firewire and Kudzu problems.

I was not able to go into interactive no matter how many times I hit I too. I found a solution to this. In my grub loader I added single to the end. This booted me into single user mood and could apply the above patches to the system.

I am having an additional problem of not being able to mount a cd or floppy. I added this line to fstab and it was no help.
/dev/hdc1 /dev/cdrom iso9660 defaults 0 0

Error: wrong FS type, bad option, bad superblock or too many mounted file systems

Any suggestions??

wi-fi is my daddy.

Thanks a lot. I guess, I would never be able to install Linux to my new ze5385 without your instructions. I did exactly what you said and that is it, fortunately I made it work :) However, I have one more problem while shutting down the unit. The screen freezes trying to attempt to unload the kernel card services. I am not sure about that, but at least, the last line before freezing is the following:
“Stopping pcmcia: Unloading Kernel Card Services”

So, I have to close the unit manually. Did you have the same problem? Any idea about that? Also I will be waiting for your suggestions about running X.

Thanks again.

Menal.