Linux 8.0 / Linux 9.0 Install Issues

I have succesfully installed Linux 8.0. Everything is working fine, except
during boot the floppy drive continually gets accessed even though there is
nothing in the drive. The result is a wonderful grinding sound. The only
way to get it to stop is to insert the Linux boot disk. Although, this is a
problem because it boots to the disk and not to the installed OS. Any ideas?

I also installed Linux 9.0, which is doing the same thing. But this install
is even worse, because when the system finishes booting up, the display is
set up improperly. The screen is black, and all I can see are a few random
icons. Any idea how to fix this? I am running both 8 and 9 at 800x600,
using the default S3 Trio adapter. Like I said, 8 looks fine, but 9 looks so
bad that I can't use it.

Any help on this would be greatly appreciated.

 

Are you referring to Red Hat 8 and 9?

Did you start the install with a boot disk or from cd?

For better video, use generic VESA instead of the S3, it will also
allow you to use 8MB of VMRAM instead of 2 or 4MB that the S3 Linux
driver limits you to.


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I only have a solution for your first question (I'm not vary good at Linux).

There is two ways to get rid of the grinding sound.

1 (which I prefer)
Go into the VM:s BIOS an disable Floppy boot (just like you would do to
disable it on a real machine).

2
Go to the VM:s settings an disable Automatic floppy detection (this have
the drawback you must explicitly capture the floppy when you want to use
it in the VM.


For your second issue: have you tried some generic VESA driver? (I don't
know if it works, just giving a hint)

/David

 

Yes the generic VESA driver works and its the only way to break the
memory limits imposed by the Linux S3 drivers.


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Steve Jain, Virtual Machine MVP
Website: http://www.essjae.com
"This posting is provided "AS IS" with
no warranties, and confers no rights.
You assume all risk for your use.
I am not am employee of Microsoft."