> > Message: 8 > Date: Sat, 24 Apr 2004 18:01:32 -0500 (EST) > From: aachary1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Subject: Hang at Boot-Presario 2585US > To: fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > Message-ID: > <3955.128.226.37.36.1082847692.squirrel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1 > > Hi, > > I have just installed Fedora core. The system hangs while booting up. It > goes to the screen which has a computer monitor/cpu, a progress bar and > below the progress bar, there is following link "show details". The system > just hangs up at this screen. Arpan: I'm not sure that I can solve your problem, but I hope I can help at least get you off top-dead-center. When the "Show details" link appears, does the system continue to boot for a little while, or does it hang as soon as "Show details" appears? If the first case is true (my guess is that this is likely), then click that link as soon as it appears. This will show you the process-by-process boot messages. Every process that comes up successfully will show an [OK] in this series of messages; and the flow of messages should stop at the process that is breaking. Knowing what is broken is the first step to working this out. You can examine this output (in general) via the boot log, but you can't get there until the system comes up, so you need this procedure. I don't recall if the Presario is a laptop or a desktop system. The one situation I have seen where Fedora hangs on boot is with a wireless network connection. I see this on my laptop all the time. You have to keep the wireless from initializing until the system boots and then bring up the network interface later. There is a fix for this (search the archives for it), but I don't know if or how well it works. If you are being bothered by the wireless kernel bug, you can work around it by booting interactively. Type 'i' when you are prompted for "interactive startup" (this will come up quickly, so pay close attention). You can let everything come up except for 'eth0' or whichever is the wireless interface. Bring it up later. You can use interactive startup also to investigate where you are hanging up too. Once you see how it goes, I think it will be easy for you to see where your problem lies. Come back if you solve the problem, or if you have more information. > > The only problem that i had while isntalling Fedora, was that it didn't > detect my laptop monitor, so I chose the default choice "unprobed > monitor". This may not be related to the above problem at all, but thought > I shall let you know. > I don't think that this will influence your problem. If the monitor settings were awry, then I'd expect the screen to be corrupted or blank, or to have X fail to start. The fact that you get the graphical boot screen argues against that situation. > Please help! > > Regards, > Arpan. > > Hope this helps, Arpan. Erik Hemdal
