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Re: RedHat Linux 9 and HP Pavillion ze5385

Gustavo A.P.S. — Sun, 18 Sep 2005 01:38:28 -0000

XD, forgot last post. Red Hat 9 is running on laptop hp ze5447la, and it seems recognize ethernet.

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...
# 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 800x600 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.

Re: RedHat Linux 9 and HP Pavillion ze5385

Gustavo A.P.S. — Sat, 17 Sep 2005 16:13:15 -0000

Hello, i finally found this page, after two weekends of trying to install red hat 9 on mi pavilion ze5447la (yes, another ze5400 series) , and i have followed the steps of this page. Thanks for that.

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)

Re: RedHat Linux 9 and HP Pavillion ze5385

jon — Sat, 03 Sep 2005 07:20:48 -0000

vexing, ain't it.

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.

Re: RedHat Linux 9 and HP Pavillion ze5385

Jay — Sun, 24 Jul 2005 01:41:34 -0000

could you please send me a copy of the xfree86 config, or at least update your links. your domain linkage is totally borked. thanks

Re: RedHat Linux 9 and HP Pavillion ze5385

nocarrier — Sun, 03 Oct 2004 22:01:35 -0000

whats up all... i know this is a BIG problem, but has anyone found a reliable (ok... i'll just say it, EASY) solution to the DRI problem with the 340M and the ze5385 laptop? Just curious... as I pull the last hair from my head.

Re: RedHat Linux 9 and HP Pavillion ze5385

Kyle — Tue, 21 Sep 2004 20:36:41 -0000

I installed Fedora core 2 on my ZE5470us.

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??

Re: RedHat Linux 9 and HP Pavillion ze5385

jonmadison — Thu, 17 Jun 2004 17:38:31 -0000

interesting...i'll have to look that up.

j.

Re: RedHat Linux 9 and HP Pavillion ze5385

Terry Brown — Mon, 07 Jun 2004 18:49:24 -0000

Just FYI I have wireless working fine on a ze5470us with linuxant's $20 driverloader hack. It would be nice if it was free in the distros, but if you'd rather not wait it's an option.

(great forum)

Re: RedHat Linux 9 and HP Pavillion ze5385

bayo — Mon, 26 Apr 2004 00:16:29 -0000

Am trying to install Suse 9.0 from DVD on my HP Pavilion ZE5602AE without success.I get an error that it cannot read sowfware from source and error is no proposal.
Even if i chose to ignore and carry on without software installation it failed.I have carried out this installation on another pavilion model with success.I tried Suse 8.0 but his equally failed.What can i do to have it running?.

Re: RedHat Linux 9 and HP Pavillion ze5385

Eliot Miranda — Tue, 13 Apr 2004 07:39:48 -0000

The issue with Partition Magic failing to repartition the drive on reboot is to do with auto-update programs like HP Sonic running in Windows XP. I'm guessing that when Partition Magic builds the script to shrink a partition it writes the drive's current status to the script and this is checked against the drive before repartitioning after reboot. Because the auto-update progams write to the disk (presumably at shut-down) Partition magic finds the drve has changed too much from when it wrote the repartitioning script.

I was able to repartition successfully using Partition Magic 8 after I uninstalled HP Sonic and Symantect Live Update. I used the PerfectDisk disk defragmenting utility (free 30 day trial) to show me which files were "live", because defragmenters can't move open files. These "live" files (other than things like pagefile.sys) are typically owned by live update programs. So one can defrag and then look at the excluded file list to find out the "live" files and tnen uninstall or deactivate the applications that own them.

Kind of ironic that Symantec owns PartitionMagic now and its own live update software is breaking it. Took a few hours to work out, too. Sigh....

Re: RedHat Linux 9 and HP Pavillion ze5385

Mon, 05 Apr 2004 12:12:27 -0000

Thank you so much for the posting. I was stuck while installing REDHAT9.0 on my HP pavilion ze5400. I read the posting here and also some other forums. Here is my summary of the installation of a dual OS on this laptop. (WinXP and RH9.0)
Install WinXP first.

Install redhat9.0 with the option
'linux nofirewire'
I select GRUB as the bootloader.

For the first boot of RedHat9.0,
when the screen comes to GRUB,
use grub editor ('e') to change the boot line
'kernel /vmlinuz-2.4.20-8 ro root=LABEL=/ hdc=ide-scsi'
to
'kernel /vmlinuz-2.4.20-8 ro root=LABEL=/ hdc=ide-scsi nofirewire'
hit 'b' to boot.

Hit 'I' to select interactive startup
(Note: The first time I did not modify the boot line and the key 'I' did not work. However I press 'I', it did not come to the interactive startup. After I used grub editor, 'I' worked fine)

If you would like to stop kudzu at the booting time, it's fine to do this. Or you can disable it after the first bootup. I used the latter.

After the first bootup, Diable pcmic and kudzu, otherwise, it will hang at "checking the new hardware". (I did not diable kudzu the first time, the bootup hang at 'Checking new hardware').

Re: RedHat Linux 9 and HP Pavillion ze5385

kendi posu — Sun, 04 Apr 2004 21:23:59 -0000

Hi,
i'm looking for vga driver for IBM THINKPAD driver for ATI RADEON IGP 300m,i could download from ibm site is there other place i can download.

cheer's
kendi

Re: RedHat Linux 9 and HP Pavillion ze5385

Rohit Toshniwal — Mon, 29 Mar 2004 17:02:20 -0000

To get to hard disk from RedHat Install itself (Knoppix not needed)

Hi,
First of all thanks to this great post. I almost gave up on mu ohci hang when I found this site. There is a way to get to hard disk and make changes to filenames and rc.sysinit. Press Ctrl-Alt F2. That will take to a shell. Now "cd /mnt/sysimage". This is "root directory" where Redhat is busy installing all the packages. Just rename the drive file and make changes.
Great posts and thanks again.
Rohit

Re: RedHat Linux 9 and HP Pavillion ze5385

strap — Wed, 24 Mar 2004 13:25:24 -0000

thanks for this great site
but i am stuck when trying to gain acces to the grub.conf file. ive tried the mount and umount and everything i could find on this site about where i am, but it still says i dont have permission to read the file. What can i do so i will have acess to change the grub.conf file? i have a ze5470. please help

Re: RedHat Linux 9 and HP Pavillion ze5385

SSKAgent — Sun, 21 Mar 2004 18:50:50 -0000

Ok here is my problem. I installed fedora and got that done. Then during boot up it freezs at the initalizing firewire controller. So i followed your instructions above and now an on Knoppix. I went into the console and typed in the commands, but I still can't edit the grub.conf file because i don't have permission. Please help

Re: RedHat Linux 9 and HP Pavillion ze5385

jonmadison — Tue, 16 Mar 2004 03:52:25 -0000

running kudzu is absolutely possible. it was mentioned here previously, i believe. could you scan a few posts up? you may want to also refer to the companion post on this blog:

http://jon.madisons.com/2003/06/17/hp_pavilion_...

maybe it's there.

at any rate, if you're going the red hat route, i suggest you begin to use Fedora anyway, as Red Hat is no longer supported on the end user front.

http://fedora.redhat.com/

j.

Re: RedHat Linux 9 and HP Pavillion ze5385

Daniel — Mon, 15 Mar 2004 20:58:24 -0000

I've just bought a ze4600, deleted XP, made 3 partitions (XP, FAT32, Linux) and installed RH9 using 'nofirewire' at the boot. Boots fine, but except LAN, FAT32 and sound, all devices are unreachable. Kudzu and PCMCIA are off.

Tried also to recompile the Kernel, but all went wrong. Couldn't find the 2.4.20-20.9 version at RH website, as suggested by Swendrak (ze5300_howto.pdf), so I took the 2.4.20-30.9 and there is no ACPI patch for this version. Tried the latest one anyway, but they don't like each other.

So, if I understand well, summing up all that was said before, is the solution to give up RH and to get SuSE 9.0?

Re: RedHat Linux 9 and HP Pavillion ze5385

green — Tue, 09 Mar 2004 03:01:13 -0000

how to set Xconfig for HP ze5500

Re: RedHat Linux 9 and HP Pavillion ze5385

phant0m — Sat, 28 Feb 2004 18:54:27 -0000

As for your integrated wireless on the HP ze4560, I got mine working just fine, check out:
http://ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net

Re: RedHat Linux 9 and HP Pavillion ze5385

Brian — Tue, 10 Feb 2004 04:05:03 -0000

First, thanks to all. Awesome, informative, helpful site.
I have a ze5560us. Before I found this site I tried installing Fedora. I made room on the drive with Partition Magic 8. The last message I saw was "locating disks". I couldnt get the details, I guess I didnt hit the 'i' key "like a mug". I thought the problem was with the disks. Back in PQ I moved the /boot partition to within the first 1024 cylinders. This shouldnt have been a problem but that is what I did. After many hours of frustration getting Fedora to load I couldnt get my windows to boot anymore either because the /boot partition and grub weren't lined up, or something... any way. I had to use grub commands to boot back into windows:
rootnoverify(hd0,0)
chainloader +1
boot
This got me back into windows to format all the linux partitions. I started over with a redhat9 disk and immediately got the message about the ohci1394 driver which led me to this site!!
After trying out knoppix to fix my fedora, I got by a few problems, the ohci1394, noprobe, nopcmcia, and hit other snags with the floppy.o, I don't have a floppy drive and tried alias nofloppy but that didnt work either. Because of others comments on this site, I gave up on fedora and tried SuSE 9.0. I made a large FAT32 partition to share files between XP and linux. Everything installed fine! I tried the eval disk first and it booted without a hitch, so i did the full FTP install. I tap the off/on button and it gracefully shuts down. I have battery/charging indicators (KDE). I have wireless via the embedded Broadcom 802.11g using www.linuxant.com drivers($20, but will pay when eval is up). Scrolling mouse touch pad as well. A hearty thanks to jon for maintaining this site and also to all the contributors, thanks!!

As for the VMware, I have installed the vmware software but havent put an OS up yet. My laptop came with an HP XP cd which appeared to be the basic XP home OS. It also came with 4 or 5 recovery CD's that resets the partition table and reinstalls the OS with the hardware specific drivers.

Re: RedHat Linux 9 and HP Pavillion ze5385

Alan Anderson — Wed, 04 Feb 2004 05:53:56 -0000

Thanks for the tips and hints on this page all of it good info. I have been evaluating laptops to replace my ageing toshiba. Question: Is the XP install disk tied to the hardware in any way? If I keep XP at all it will need to be installed under linux with vmware. I'll let linux have the entire disk. So has anybody been able to install the XP disk that is shipped with the ze series pavillion under vmware?

Re: RedHat Linux 9 and HP Pavillion ze5385

Abe — Tue, 03 Feb 2004 08:02:43 -0000

Hi all;
I have a ze5500 with windows xp home edition preinstalled on it. I tried to use partition magic to resize my partition and install linux RedHat 9. it didn't work. I got too many errors after rebooting. So, I wipped out everything and did the partition manually. Installed windows xp from scratch. but the screen display was of the size of postcard.
any suggestion?

Re: RedHat Linux 9 and HP Pavillion ze5385

David — Tue, 03 Feb 2004 05:11:33 -0000

yes, I read the post. :) Fortunately, Suse Linux 9.0 Professional indentified my hardware. I previously tried to install Mandrake 9.2, Fedora Core 1 and RH8. I'm please with it so far.

Re: RedHat Linux 9 and HP Pavillion ze5385

karel — Sun, 01 Feb 2004 04:59:25 -0000

Problem solved, I want to thank Ricky. His post realy did it, RH9 is finaly running.

Re: RedHat Linux 9 and HP Pavillion ze5385

Ross — Fri, 30 Jan 2004 01:23:45 -0000

Sorry, scratch the 'if' on previous post LCD is fried is the message.