Installing Fedora Core 5 on a ThinkPad T60
Installation of Fedora Core 5 (Bordeaux) on a ThinkPad T60 (2007-46G). The installation works fine, but the system hangs during the first boot. It can only be circumvented by booting the rescue system and modifying a Fedora startup file.
Contents
Summary
What works out of the box
- Network card
- Keyboard light and brightness control (not controlled by the OS)
- Dual CPU (uses SMP kernel)
- Graphics Card (recogized as ATI unknown device 7149)
- SATA controller (in AHCI mode)
What needs to be fixed post-install
- System boot
- Sound
Not tested
- PCMCIA Slots (at least lspci shows Texas Instruments CardBus bridge)
- Monitor out
- Wireless
- Bluetooth
- Modem
- Firewire
Getting the system booted
Boot from the Fedora Core 5 CD and enter rescue mode (linux rescue).
Edit the file /etc/sysconfig/modules/udev-stw.modules and delete parport_pc parport lp (don't forget to chroot into /mnt/sysimage or adjust the path of the edited file).
I also disabled the parallel port in the BIOS, but it does not seem to be necessary. Now reboot and enjoy the first clean boot of your Fedora Core 5 on your T60.
If anybody has an idea why the system hangs while trying to load this modules, please let us know.