Hi, I'm not sure if this will be any help to you really, I just thought I'd share my experiences. I too tried installing Fedora Core (2) on my "old" Linux PC, which is pretty basic in terms of configuration - one hard drive, graphics card, Athlon 1.3Ghz Thunderbird processor, no sound card or other peripherals, 768Mb of RAM. After I had installed Fedora in exactly the same way as you and rebooted, the boot process hung at exactly the same point. I tried all kinds of kernel boot parameters to no avail. In the end, on a whim, I installed Red Hat 9 which worked flawlessly first time. I upgraded the kernel on my Red Hat 9 installation to a recent version of the 2.6 kernel, a process I have done countless times on other systems, and when I booted the new kernel it got stuck at exactly the same position as Fedora Core did. It wasn't kernel panic'ing or anything like that, it wasn't even getting to the first step. The only thing I could conclude was that there was some serious hardware incompatibility between my system and the 2.6.x kernel. From the sounds of it you have the same problem. I would be interested to know what your hardware configuration is so I can compare it against mine, as I would like to install and use Fedora successfully at some point. Regards, Darren > -----Original Message----- > From: fedora-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:fedora-list- > bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Ned Voorhees > Sent: 01 January 2005 20:16 > To: Dave Jones > Cc: For users of Fedora Core releases > Subject: Re: Boot hangs after fresh install > > Thanks very much Dave. > > I was able to remove the "quiet" as you suggested. The boot process > messages look good up until I see the message "Configuring kernel > parameters:" on a line by itself. That is the last message that I see > when it hangs. I can hit return and see line feeds at this point, but > nothing else seems to be going on (no hard drive activity, etc.). > > Any further thoughts or suggestions (Dave or anyone else)? > > Thanks for your help, > Ned > > > > On Sat, 1 Jan 2005 14:55:23 -0500, Dave Jones <davej@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Sat, Jan 01, 2005 at 02:50:42PM -0500, Ned Voorhees wrote: > > > Below are the messages shown on the screen at boot time: > > > --- snip --- > > > Booting 'Fedora Core (2.6.9-1.667)' > > > root (hd0,0) > > > Filesystem type is ext2fs, partition type 0x83 > > > kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.9-1.667 ro root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 rhgb > quiet > > > [Linux-bzImage, setup=0z1400, size=0x155da5] > > > initrd /initrd-2.6.9-1.667.img > > > [Linux-initrd@0x7ef3000, 0xecfed bytes] > > > --- snip --- > > > > > > The above is all that is shown on the screen when the boot process > > > hangs. If anyone has any suggestions on what I might want to do or > > > check, I would very much appreciate it. > > > > When you get to the bootloader screen, if you press 'e' you > > can edit the command line, and remove 'quiet' from it. > > You'll then see all the kernel messages, and see exactly where > > it hangs. > > > > Dave (hating 'quiet' more and more each day) > > > > > > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list > > -- > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. > Version: 7.0.296 / Virus Database: 265.6.7 - Release Date: 30/12/2004 > -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.296 / Virus Database: 265.6.7 - Release Date: 30/12/2004
