Hi All;
I'm trying to instal CentOS on my new laptop but I've run into a few issues.
It's a Dell Precision M6400 - I'm installing CentOS 5 (64bit) running KDE
I have 3 issues:
1) I cannot get the wireless to work
2) I cannot get sound to work
3) I cannot get the full screen resolution I can go to administration --> display and under the 'Hardwae' tab I can configure the display as a generic or as a Dell 1920x1200 but no matter what I choose the 'Settings' tab only lets me choose a max of 1400x1050
I can get the wireless and sound to work in Fedora 10 but I'm not sure how to tell specifically what devices they are.. I thought I could use Fedora 10 to help debug the sound & wireless.
Thanks in advance for any help ...
could you maybe give more information. dmesg for example
On Sat, Nov 29, 2008 at 10:12 AM, Kevin Kempter kevin@kevinkempterllc.com wrote:
Hi All;
I'm trying to instal CentOS on my new laptop but I've run into a few issues.
It's a Dell Precision M6400 - I'm installing CentOS 5 (64bit) running KDE
I have 3 issues:
I cannot get the wireless to work
I cannot get sound to work
I cannot get the full screen resolution
I can go to administration --> display and under the 'Hardwae' tab I can configure the display as a generic or as a Dell 1920x1200 but no matter what I choose the 'Settings' tab only lets me choose a max of 1400x1050
I can get the wireless and sound to work in Fedora 10 but I'm not sure how to tell specifically what devices they are.. I thought I could use Fedora 10 to help debug the sound & wireless.
Thanks in advance for any help ...
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Hi all,
im going crazy. I have one ATA disc with CentOS 5.2 and LVM, the LVM structure is:
--- Logical volume --- LV Name /dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 LV Name /dev/VolGroup00/LogVol01
Here comes the challende, i need to clone that ATA disc to a SATA disc. The thing is, i don't longer need the LVM structure because i need so make a softraid 1 later. My plan was:
1. Boot from a live cd and rsync all content to the sata disc. 2. Partition /boot (sda1), / (sda3), and swap (sda2) (sda1 bootable) 2. Make a new initrd image without LVM 3. Install grub on /dev/sda1 3. Boot as test 4. Make a softraid 1 with the second SATA drive.
The only problem now is, i cannot boot from the new SATA drive. I run into a kernel panic (Kernel not syncing). I try'd everything possible, in mtab of the sata was the LVM path, i changed it and also the grub menue the fstab and so on...
How can i get of that LVM and clone it to the new SATA drive?
Thanks for advice and best greetings
Wolfgang
Shade.GE wrote:
The only problem now is, i cannot boot from the new SATA drive. I run into a kernel panic (Kernel not syncing). I try'd everything possible, in mtab of the sata was the LVM path, i changed it and also the grub menue the fstab and so on...
mtab is a dynamic file anyways, fstab and grub is all that should matter. hard to say what went wrong. sure the SATA drivers got included in the initrd ?
How can i get of that LVM and clone it to the new SATA drive?
Well, you need modules in your new initrd for the sata controller. It looks like you have everything else in order.
FWIW, I do softraid under LVM no problem and I like the flexibility of LVM so I always use it now.
jlc
Joseph L. Casale schrieb:
How can i get of that LVM and clone it to the new SATA drive?
Well, you need modules in your new initrd for the sata controller. It looks like you have everything else in order.
FWIW, I do softraid under LVM no problem and I like the flexibility of LVM so I always use it now.
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Yea the SATA modules are included in the initrd. Grub boots but i cannot get over to init. Well, its not important if LVM is there or not. Its the intel board with the singel core atom cpu. so 2 sata and one ide port. It looks like that the kernel cannot find the root device. One message i got is the swap cannot be enabled because no swap device was found.
Wolfgang
On Sat, Nov 29, 2008 at 12:54 PM, Shade.GE shade.ge@gmail.com wrote:
Yea the SATA modules are included in the initrd. Grub boots but i cannot get over to init. Well, its not important if LVM is there or not. Its the intel board with the singel core atom cpu. so 2 sata and one ide port. It looks like that the kernel cannot find the root device. One message i got is the swap cannot be enabled because no swap device was found.
That could be the drive order confusion I mentioned.
When you tell the PROM to boot from drive 1, for example, the PROM will go to drive 1's MBR and try to boot from there, but one grub is loaded and looking around for stage 2, it will see the drives in their actual physical order, not the PROM's boot order. You usually have to intervene when it displays what OS grub thinks it's going to boot and edit the boot hd to the right disk.
Or are you not getting that far?
mhr
MHR schrieb:
On Sat, Nov 29, 2008 at 12:54 PM, Shade.GE shade.ge@gmail.com wrote:
Yea the SATA modules are included in the initrd. Grub boots but i cannot get over to init. Well, its not important if LVM is there or not. Its the intel board with the singel core atom cpu. so 2 sata and one ide port. It looks like that the kernel cannot find the root device. One message i got is the swap cannot be enabled because no swap device was found.
That could be the drive order confusion I mentioned.
When you tell the PROM to boot from drive 1, for example, the PROM will go to drive 1's MBR and try to boot from there, but one grub is loaded and looking around for stage 2, it will see the drives in their actual physical order, not the PROM's boot order. You usually have to intervene when it displays what OS grub thinks it's going to boot and edit the boot hd to the right disk.
Or are you not getting that far?
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I try'd in different order. Disconnect the IDE drive, change only the bootorder etc. Nothing, everytime the same message. Grub can boot it, its running into kernel and one line before init is running kernel panics. Seems like the kernel could not find the root device, the swap is afaik not necessary to boot. Tomorrow i try to clone it with acronis and resize the partition to the new drive. We will see if this is possible.
I try'd in different order. Disconnect the IDE drive, change only the bootorder etc. Nothing, everytime the same message. Grub can boot it, its running into kernel and one line before init is running kernel panics. Seems like the kernel could not find the root device, the swap is afaik not necessary to boot. Tomorrow i try to clone it with acronis and resize the partition to the new drive. We will see if this is possible.
Well, focusing on something more fundamental then, what's your mkinitrd command? And what mobo are you using (model #).
jlc
Joseph L. Casale schrieb:
I try'd in different order. Disconnect the IDE drive, change only the bootorder etc. Nothing, everytime the same message. Grub can boot it, its running into kernel and one line before init is running kernel panics. Seems like the kernel could not find the root device, the swap is afaik not necessary to boot. Tomorrow i try to clone it with acronis and resize the partition to the new drive. We will see if this is possible.
Well, focusing on something more fundamental then, what's your mkinitrd command? And what mobo are you using (model #).
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Mobo is: Intel D945GCLF Little Falls Iv'e try'd mkinitrd with mounted /sys, /proc and /dev from the live cd without any special parameters, so my think was, sata is visible and should be enabled by default. The LVM is not longer included in the new initrd because the lvm messages are gone on booting kernel.
Mobo is: Intel D945GCLF Little Falls Iv'e try'd mkinitrd with mounted /sys, /proc and /dev from the live cd without any special parameters, so my think was, sata is visible and should be enabled by default. The LVM is not longer included in the new initrd because the lvm messages are gone on booting kernel.
I'd say that's your problem there :) Add a --preload and load the applicable module based on how your bios is set up. If it can do AHCI, and I think it can, use that.
Not sure how mkinitrd works from a livecd when your modprobe.conf is on the "rescued" system. Maybe running from a chroot might overcome any ambiguity, but you most likely don't have an appropriate modprobe.conf on the dead system that is even right.
--preload will force it in where it needs to be. You need some combination of ahci, ata_piix and libata. Someone the wiser chime in. Those are what are applicable to this mobo under any possible config, it's an ICH7 board.
jlc
On Sat, Nov 29, 2008 at 12:35 PM, Shade.GE shade.ge@gmail.com wrote:
Here comes the challende, i need to clone that ATA disc to a SATA disc. The thing is, i don't longer need the LVM structure because i need so make a softraid 1 later. My plan was:
- Boot from a live cd and rsync all content to the sata disc.
- Partition /boot (sda1), / (sda3), and swap (sda2) (sda1 bootable)
- Make a new initrd image without LVM
- Install grub on /dev/sda1
- Boot as test
- Make a softraid 1 with the second SATA drive.
May I suggest a different approach?
0. Set your boot PROM to treat your SATA disk as a non-RAID drive (ATA or AHCI). 1. Boot from your ATA disk (no need to boot from anywhere else). 2. Partition the SATA disk (or wipe the ones you already made clean). 3. Copy all files from the ATA disk to the SATA disk. 4. Grub-install the SATA disk. 5. Re-boot and change the boot drive settings in the PROM. 6. Reboot into your shiny new SATA CentOS!
Be aware that if you change the order of the boot drives, that can confuse grub, so you may need to intervene manually at stage 2 to make sure it loads from the right drive.
I don't think the LVM vs. manual VM will make much of a difference, but the RAID might unless you go with a strictly software RAID (because you'll almost certainly run into hardware issues).
Is your SATA drive mounted as a RAID drive or an ATA-extension (I forget the exact terminology) in the boot PROM? That can also make a significant difference.
HTH
mhr
On Sat, Nov 29, 2008 at 2:12 AM, Kevin Kempter kevin@kevinkempterllc.com wrote:
I'm trying to instal CentOS on my new laptop but I've run into a few issues. It's a Dell Precision M6400 - I'm installing CentOS 5 (64bit) running KDE
I have an old Toshiba Tecra 8100 w/P3-600 and CentOS 5.2 32 bit, so there will be extreme variances, but....
I have 3 issues:
- I cannot get the wireless to work
I had trouble with this, too. I have a DLink USB wireless plugin, which may be part of the problem, but I wound up using ndiswrapper and the Window$ driver, and that seems to work as long as I can remember the right sequence of commands to execute to ensure that it is up and running. (Need to script that....)
- I cannot get sound to work
You might want to post some info on what kind of sound processor is in your machine. I can't help you here - my sound works fine.
- I cannot get the full screen resolution
I can go to administration --> display and under the 'Hardwae' tab I can configure the display as a generic or as a Dell 1920x1200 but no matter what I choose the 'Settings' tab only lets me choose a max of 1400x1050
Have you gone to system->preferences->screen resolution and set that as well? I could not get any widescreen modes to work with my (home) desktop system and a new 22"WS monitor until I did that. Then they all worked.
Also, check your xorg.conf file to make sure all the possible modes are there - sometimes you have to edit in the Modes line with all the resolutions your monitor can handle.
I can get the wireless and sound to work in Fedora 10 but I'm not sure how to tell specifically what devices they are.. I thought I could use Fedora 10 to help debug the sound & wireless.
Whole different animal - different kernel and everything else down the line. Probably not going to help much.
HTH
mhr
On Sat, Nov 29, 2008 at 5:12 AM, Kevin Kempter kevin@kevinkempterllc.com wrote:
I'm trying to instal CentOS on my new laptop but I've run into a few issues. It's a Dell Precision M6400 - I'm installing CentOS 5 (64bit) running KDE
You may want to try CentOS (32 bit). Suggest you try it with the CentOS Live CD, first, to see if CentOS will work OK on your Laptop. If not, suggest you use Fedora or Ubuntu or something that supports more HW. GL <snip>
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