On Tue, 2004-10-05 at 09:57, Darren Coleman wrote: > Hi, > > I hope someone out there will be able to help, I think I have a somewhat > unique problem. > > I have installed Fedora Core 2 on my system successfully but when I try to > boot it after the install I get as far as the Grub loader, and then it just > sits there. > > For reference I am *NOT* dual booting or anything like it, the system has a > single IDE hard disk (no floppy drive) which is used by FC2 only. > > Whenever I attempt to boot the system, it loads the GRUB loader and gives me > the option to select the kernel I want to boot (obviously only one > available), then shows the following: > > Booting 'Fedora Core (2.6.5-1.358)' > > root (hd0,0) > Filesystem type is ext2fs, partition type 0x83 > kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.5-1.358 ro root=/dev/hda2 > [Linux-bzImage, setup=0x1400, size=0x1235b7] > initrd /initrd-2.6.5-1.358.img > [Linux-initrd @ 0x2ffb2000, 0x2d9b1 bytes] > > ..and that's it. > > No "Uncompressing the kernel".. nothing.. just a flashing cursor. > > I've tried rebooting several times as well as reinstalling, allowing Disk > Druid to automatically partition the drive, tried installing GRUB on the MBR > or First Boot Sector, etc to no avail. > > I'm totally stumped as its not a complex configuration and in terms of > hardware installed all that's in the PC is a plain graphics card and a > network card. There is nothing out of the ordinary. > > I have never had these problems installing Red Hat 9 and have installed RH9 > on several PCs without this issue. > > Anyone got any suggestions? > > Thanks, > > Darren Darren, Try booting in single user or init level 3. Append 'single' or 3 to the kernel command line during GRUB (hit 'a' when presented with the initial menu). Single or 3 should disable the quiet mode and graphical boot loader, though it doesn't sound like you're getting that far. Bob...
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