On Wed, 17 Dec 2003 12:49:05 -0800 (PST) Bob Dedrick <bd914@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I'm having problems booting the Core 1 system I've > installed on a Compaq Presario 800 notebook. At boot > time, the last few messages prior to the system > hanging are: > > Creating block devices > Creating root device > Mounting root filesystem > kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds > EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode > Freeing unused kernel memory: 136k freed > > The power switch is the only thing the system listens > to at this point. > > I'm also unable to boot from the installation CD-ROM, > which hangs after the message "hda: attached ide-disk > driver." However, I was able to boot from floppy, and > install from CD, with no problems. > > Debugging is complicated by the fact that "linux > rescue" after booting from floppy doesn't seem to work > (I end up in the install program regardless). > > I have a bit of Linux experience, but right now I'm > stuck. Any suggestions on debugging this? I have the exact same notebook. Use the following bootstring: linux apm=off nofirewire You may run into difficulty with the cardbus (pcmcia slot) later though. Apparantly, the 2.4 kernels do something differently than the 2.2 kernels and the cardbus never gets initialized. When I bought my laptop, I was running redhat 6.2 and everything worked fine. When I upgraded to 7.0, the cardbus stopped working. I tried everything and the only thing that I can get to work is to keep a stripped down redhat 6.2 installation in a small partition on the hard drive, boot to it when I power-on the laptop, then reboot (without powering down the laptop) into fedora. Apparantly, the 2.2 kernel initializes the cardbus and it retains it's initialized state across the reboot as long as the laptop isn't powered off. If anyone else out there has this laptop and has a different solution for making the cardbus work, I'd love to hear about it. Dave Muse david.muse@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx > > > ===== > -- > Bob Dedrick (bd914@xxxxxxxxx) > Hartsdale, NY > > __________________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > New Yahoo! Photos - easier uploading and sharing. > http://photos.yahoo.com/ > > > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list >
