Boot in single user mode by modifying your kernel boot parameters:
When displayed the kernel version during boot, hit enter.
Select the kernel, then hit "e"
At the end of the kernel statement, add the following: " single" (with the space)
Hit "b" to boot.
This will boot you to a shell "#:"
From the command prompt, run: "system-config-display" and feed it good info for your hardware (be conservative)
*Bryan M. Johns*
*One Ring Group, Inc.* 300 West Wieuca Road Building One Suite 205 Atlanta, GA 30342 404.303.9900 X: 104 *http://www.oneringgroup.com* <http://www.oneringgroup.com>
Paul wrote:
I tried and failed to install this OS on my laptop (PIII-650 384 megs of ram). I did this by downloading FC3-i386-DVD.iso and burning it onto a dvd with my desktop (running Windows XP), and then installing. I had it destroy all former partitions (Windows ME) that was on there previously, and everything seemed to go very well. Then it was done about a half an hour later and I rebooted.
It hangs while trying to boot up and I can't figure out the cause. Here's the information I see during bootup that may or maynot be relevant :
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=0x1400, size=0x155da5] initrd /initrd-2.6.9-1.667.img [Linux-initrd @ 0x17ee4000, 0x17ee4000, 0xebc97 bytes]
Uncompressing Linux... Ok, booting the kernel. audit(1111678052.169:0): initialized Red Hat nash version 4.1.18 starting Reading all physical volumes. This may take a while... Found volume group "VolGroup00" using metadata type lvm2 2 logical volumes in volume group "VolGroup00" now active INIT: version 2.85 booting Setting default font (latarcyrheb-sun16): [ OK ]
Welcome to Fedora Core
Press 'I' to enter interactrive startup.
Starting udev: i [ OK ]
Initializing hardware... storage network audio_
It always stops here and does nothing no matter how patient I am. Any ideas? Anywhere I might look for more information on resolving this issue? I'd really like to get Red Hat up and going on my machine and this is very frustrating. Any replies would be most appreciated. Unfortunately, I'm a complete beginner with respect to this operating system, and all other 'linux' types of OS's.
