Tom asked:
Can you boot to any of these initstates?
# 1 - Single user mode
# 2 - Multiuser, without NFS (The same as 3,
if you do not have networking)
# 3 - Full multiuser mode
# 5 - X11
I tried #1, #3, #5 all with the same old error of hanging while loading
aic7xxx. In #5, when I tried to ctrl-alt-del the machine did nothing.
When I pressed ctrl-alt-del with #'s 1 & 3, their was two lines
displaying something about stopping all devices and switching to
read-only mode (sorry, they were displayed too quickly).
Jeremy got frightened ;-)
You are beginning to get way outside of my area of expertise. I don't
even know what fstab is but I would love to know. Keep in mind that I
cannot exclude the SCSI RAID device(s) because that is where my hard
drives are.
The comment symbol for fstab is the hash (#). If you put that at the
beginning of a line, Fedora will ignore it. This means that you can put
messages like
# Jeremy took this out to get the system to boot
in there, or put a hash at the beginning of an otherwise valid line to
disable it (yet make it easy to re-enable it).
I found the file and commented out the CD-ROM. The other devices I
recognized were the hard drive with the OS on it. I didn't think I
should comment out those lines so I didn't. In any event eliminating
the CD-ROM didn't help as the machine still wouldn't boot (except in
rescue mode.)
BTW, I liked the commentary.
Jeremy
