From: "Thomas Cameron" <thomas.cameron@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Reply-To: For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx> To: "For users of Fedora Core releases" <fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx> Subject: Re: core 3 hangs Date: Sun, 30 Jan 2005 21:31:32 -0600
----- Original Message ----- From: "solarflow 99" <solarflow99@xxxxxxxxxxx> To: <fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Sunday, January 30, 2005 9:05 PM Subject: core 3 hangs
I am having a problem booting core 3 on this 1 computer. It boots fine up to the point where it says:
Switching to a new root
and, it just sits there. Does anyone have any ideas what could cause it to hang there? low ram? I disabled selinux, and everthing else, upgraded the kernel, but it still hangs.
Thanks...
A little more info is needed. What are the specs on your system (i.e. how much memory). Has it ever worked? If so, what changed recently? How did you upgrade the kernel if it just hangs?
Please have a look at http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html, and then give us a little more to work with...
ok, it is a working installation, if I pull the 20 GB drive into my PIII-866 (where I installed it from) it boots up just fine. The computer that it hangs with is an older PC, I was kind of embarassed to say the specs, but there must be other people running FC3 on older hardware too. it's a P-100 16MB ram, I changed the kernel to the newest i586 rpm, it won't even boot up with i686 anyway. I have selinux disabled. I'm just wondering what happens when linux displays "Switching to a new root" just before the Init process starts.
thanks for the reply
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