I found the REAL issue. IEEE 1394 Firewire. Linux doesn't like this. Does anyone have a clue how to get Linux to recognize a firewire controller? Thanks Nancy ---------------------- There was a spelling error in my email (the GRUB command is correct - kernel) Thanks for the suggestion on init 3. The error is in the firewall. I attempted to add nofirewall as a kernel parameter... but didn't work. Aside from reinstalling without a firewall, is there any way to bypass this initialization? Thanks again Nancy At the grub menu screen hit e before it starts booting. Use move down to the line kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.22-1.22115.ntpl ro root=LABEL=/ hdc=ide-scsi rhgb remove rhgb Adding init 3 will put you in command mode (not X). Then you will hopefully see what is hanging. -- jludwig <wralphie comcast net> On Tue, 2004-04-13 at 14:59, Nancy Demers wrote: > I just installed Fedora on a Compaq laptop (appeared > to be successful). > Windows XP is installed on the 40G partition and LINUX > has it's own 20G partition. > The GRUB dual boot appears to work fine (it displays > the DOS and LINUX options). Then, it appears to start > LINUX (lots of lines of code fly by) but freezes when > the Fedora Core graphics opens and the progress bar > says "Show Details" and the 'setting up local disks' > disappears <-- it freezes here. > > The 3 GRUB commands are: > 1> root (hd0,1) > 2> kernal /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.22-1.2115.nptl ro > root=LABEL=/ hdc=ide-scsi rhgb > 3> initrd /boot/initrd-2.4.22-1.2115.nptl.img > > Any thoughts? > > Thanks > Nancy > __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Tax Center - File online by April 15th http://taxes.yahoo.com/filing.html
