Scot L. Harris wrote:
On Wed, 2004-08-04 at 16:31, Matt Morgan wrote:
I'm trying to install FC2 on my computer, a white-box with Asus
motherboard and hyperthreading 2.8Ghz Intel P4. I'm getting fairly
random crashing upon firstboot ("random" meaning the point at which is
crashes varies, but it always crashes).
Have you tried booting to single user mode? Or run level 3 to eliminate
X as the problem?
I was able to boot to single-user mode. I don't remember trying run
level 3. But it did not seem like X had anything to do with it, since
the crashes occurred at various times in the boot process ("starting
sshd," "starting cups," etc.).
And to eliminate some of the possible hardware issues have you run a
memory test just to make sure your memory is not flaky?
I have not, but I've been using FC1 on this computer very successfully
for a while now. But that's a good point--I'll definitely try a memory
test next time I try FC2. Thanks for the tip.
What kind of harddrives are you using?
ATA; one WD 80Gb drive. A Sony CD-RW is on the other IDE bus.
What does your partition table look like? Particularly the swap
partition as it seems that may be a sticking point.
I may not remember exactly, but I think I had 200Mb of /boot, 6Gb of /
(root), 512Mb of swap (to match my RAM), and then the remainder /home.
Grub was in the MBR.
Are you dual booting?
No, it was a clean install on formatted partitions.
Thanks!
