Adam Getchell wrote: > > Similar question for an upcoming Dell Inspiron 8100 laptop. It comes with XP > already installed. Will I be able to install RH 7.2 on another partition, > write grub to the bootsector, and have Grub dual boot XP and 7.2? Or do I > need to install Grub/RH 7.2 first? >
Here is what I found while installing RH 7.2 on a sony pcg-fxa32 notebook with the following hardware: amd duron 900MHx processor 256 MB RAM ATI Rage Mobility USB Firewire VIA 82C686 (Apollo super south) chipset 8X DVD 15GB HD with 2 partitions Windows XP installed on the first one (~6GB) ext'd partition ~9GB First off let me say that the installation went well. I did the laptop install with a few extra packages and used disk druid to partition the drive. I deleted the single big logical in the extended partition and installed seperate partitions for /, /var ... I used up all the room on the device. I used grub and let it put it on the MBR. It saw the windows install and let me name it what I wanted to. I used xp for those of you that are curious. rebooted and then ..(drum roll please) aieee kernel panic. sucafractchitgrrr. several reboots and alot of googleing later I found a bug in bugzilla.redhat.com ( Bugzilla Bug - 55040) This said to pass noathlon to the kernel via grub. I did, and viola! up and running! I have not played with the sound or tried to play a dvd yet but i did get the cd to play a music cd so I guess the sound is working. xp boots like always <flame_retardant>very pretty interface BTW</flame_retardant> I am pleased enough that I am about to put all my stuff from the old dell on the new sony and give the dell to our salesman. I reall wanted to get this info out there since the noathlon thing was not something I had seen before at least no remembered seeming it, and wanted to save someone a lot of time if they are getting apparently random segfaults and kernel oopes with a 7.2 installation on an athlon or duron machine. Now I can go digging to see if the kernel guys have figured out how to tweak the chipset so that the athlon optimizations can be used. Thanks for everyone who offered their experience and help. Bret _______________________________________________ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
