Ajay Sharma wrote:
John Hinton wrote:
I fixed my problem by booting with "linux agp=off". That's how I got the kernel to ignore AGP and start up. I still haven't gone through the full install, that's a project for this weekend. I imagine that I'll have to add the agp=off string to the grub bootloader line.
Now I'm curious.. :) Does this machine have a AGP slot? Or onboard video? Is it an old or new box? Anaconda does seem pretty headstrong about finding an AGP interface.
I 'really' hate to say this... and really I guess I'm spoiled a bit, but darn if Anaconda isn't getting more finicky than winblows. Then again, years ago... a linux install could sometime require a sacrifice of your first child... and there wasn't much support for any peripherals beyond the 'most' common printers.. (about 3 of them IIRC). Seems we've peaked with ease of install and are on a downward path again. But, in all fairness, we 'know' what's happening at boot.. have a way to fix issues. Sometimes I think windows if full of 'work-a-arounds' that lets the machine run without using <insert fancy fast hardware name here>. And the manufactures all know they must do windows drivers.
One of my DL380s... a dual 666 ran just fine on 4.0 and then wouldn't boot in smp after I think the first kernel upgrade. The single processor mode ran fine. I added apm=off noapic to grub... and dual mode now works fine. It just seems a bit odd that what was supported is suddenly gone. I guess they work really hard to keep the kernel size down or something and older device support gets removed. But gee, on the upside, it sure was 'easy' to fix!!!
Best, John Hinton