help with Fedora

help with Fedora

[Scott Berry]

Hello list,

I am having a problem with a Toshiba laptop.  When I go to install 
Fedora I get as far as the partitioning.  I wanted to do an automatic 
when I tried this however, it gave an error like this:  "i/o error 
not able to read /dev/hda."  I thought it was because there is 
another Linux distribution on the system but I went in and did a 
manual but the New Edit and Delete would not come up for some 
reason.  Can some one give me some advice as how I might go about 
fixing this?  It is Fedora 3.  I am currently using sighted 
assistance because my notebook does not have a serial port so I will 
have to set up Speakup for software speech.  Thanks much.

Scott
  

Re: help with Fedora

[Willem van der Walt]

Hi,
I would try going into rescue mode with fc3 and run fdisk to have a look 
at the disk.  Once in rescue mode, fdisk /dev/hda should go in the p 
command then should show the partitions.  If that give a simelar error, I 
would start checking the hardware.
Make sure the existing linux on the hard drive still boots etc.
A thing that i assume you have checked is that the drive is actually 
connected to the first primary IDE controler and therefore is called hda.
I have had machines where the only drive was connected to the second IDE 
controler's master making it hdc.
HTH Willem


On Wed, 27 Jul 2005, Scott Berry wrote:

> Hello list,
>
> I am having a problem with a Toshiba laptop.  When I go to install Fedora I 
> get as far as the partitioning.  I wanted to do an automatic when I tried 
> this however, it gave an error like this:  "i/o error not able to read 
> /dev/hda."  I thought it was because there is another Linux distribution on 
> the system but I went in and did a manual but the New Edit and Delete would 
> not come up for some reason.  Can some one give me some advice as how I might 
> go about fixing this?  It is Fedora 3.  I am currently using sighted 
> assistance because my notebook does not have a serial port so I will have to 
> set up Speakup for software speech.  Thanks much.
>
> Scott
> 
>
> _______________________________________________
> Speakup mailing list
> Speakup@braille.uwo.ca
> http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
>

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Re: help with Fedora

[Scott Berry]

Okay thanks for the help I will check that.

Is there a special way to get in to the rescue process?  Like typing 
"linux rescue" on the first disk?



At 01:44 AM 7/28/2005, you wrote:

>Hi,
>I would try going into rescue mode with fc3 and run fdisk to have a 
>look at the disk.  Once in rescue mode, fdisk /dev/hda should go in 
>the p command then should show the partitions.  If that give a 
>simelar error, I would start checking the hardware.
>Make sure the existing linux on the hard drive still boots etc.
>A thing that i assume you have checked is that the drive is actually 
>connected to the first primary IDE controler and therefore is called hda.
>I have had machines where the only drive was connected to the second 
>IDE controler's master making it hdc.
>HTH Willem
>
>
>On Wed, 27 Jul 2005, Scott Berry wrote:
>
>>Hello list,
>>
>>I am having a problem with a Toshiba laptop.  When I go to install 
>>Fedora I get as far as the partitioning.  I wanted to do an 
>>automatic when I tried this however, it gave an error like 
>>this:  "i/o error not able to read /dev/hda."  I thought it was 
>>because there is another Linux distribution on the system but I 
>>went in and did a manual but the New Edit and Delete would not come 
>>up for some reason.  Can some one give me some advice as how I 
>>might go about fixing this?  It is Fedora 3.  I am currently using 
>>sighted assistance because my notebook does not have a serial port 
>>so I will have to set up Speakup for software speech.  Thanks much.
>>
>>Scott
>>
>>_______________________________________________
>>Speakup mailing list
>>Speakup@braille.uwo.ca
>>http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
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Re: help with Fedora

[Willem van der Walt]

Yes, it is linux rescue.
Regards, Willem


On Thu, 28 Jul 2005, Scott Berry wrote:

> Okay thanks for the help I will check that.
>
> Is there a special way to get in to the rescue process?  Like typing "linux 
> rescue" on the first disk?
>
>
>
> At 01:44 AM 7/28/2005, you wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>> I would try going into rescue mode with fc3 and run fdisk to have a look at 
>> the disk.  Once in rescue mode, fdisk /dev/hda should go in the p command 
>> then should show the partitions.  If that give a simelar error, I would 
>> start checking the hardware.
>> Make sure the existing linux on the hard drive still boots etc.
>> A thing that i assume you have checked is that the drive is actually 
>> connected to the first primary IDE controler and therefore is called hda.
>> I have had machines where the only drive was connected to the second IDE 
>> controler's master making it hdc.
>> HTH Willem
>> 
>> 
>> On Wed, 27 Jul 2005, Scott Berry wrote:
>> 
>>> Hello list,
>>> 
>>> I am having a problem with a Toshiba laptop.  When I go to install Fedora 
>>> I get as far as the partitioning.  I wanted to do an automatic when I 
>>> tried this however, it gave an error like this:  "i/o error not able to 
>>> read /dev/hda."  I thought it was because there is another Linux 
>>> distribution on the system but I went in and did a manual but the New Edit 
>>> and Delete would not come up for some reason.  Can some one give me some 
>>> advice as how I might go about fixing this?  It is Fedora 3.  I am 
>>> currently using sighted assistance because my notebook does not have a 
>>> serial port so I will have to set up Speakup for software speech.  Thanks 
>>> much.
>>> 
>>> Scott
>>> 
>>> _______________________________________________
>>> Speakup mailing list
>>> Speakup@braille.uwo.ca
>>> http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
>> 
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