David Jansen wrote: > On Thu, Nov 23, 2006 at 08:56:45PM -0600, Michael Satterwhite wrote: >> After installing Fedora Core 6, I couldn't get it to boot. >> >> The first time, I tried installing it with gnome and kde. Note that I >> tested the media before installation. When I tried to boot it after >> installation, it hung at syscall_call+0x7/0xb. >> >> I tried another installation, this time with just gnome (I figured I >> could install kde after the system was up). When I tried to boot it >> after install, I got >> >> Mounting local filesyste [Failed] >> Enabling local filesystem quotas [OK] >> Enabling /etc/fstab swaps >> >> It was at this point that it hung. I fell back to ubuntu edgy (which I'm >> trying to get away from) in order to get my system back up. >> >> Can anyone offer any help? I can't get Fedora up at all. >> >> ---Michael > > This happens to be the point where the boot sequence switches to > graphical mode (if /usr and / are on different partitions, otherwise it > would be in graphical mode some steps earlier). > So the best bet would be that there is a problem with the graphics card. I did not define a separate /usr partition, so it's going to be in the same partition as /. > > To find out more, try this: > - reboot > - in the grub boot loader screen, first press a key to see the menu, > then press 'a' to modify the kernel arguments > - from the line of kernel options, remove 'rhgb' and 'quiet', and add '3' > (all without the quotes). This disables the graphical boot, makes the > boot sequence more verbose, and boots to runlevel 3, that is, without X > started, so you will have a text mode system on which you can login, > view logs, attempt to reconfigure X etc. maybe the boot messages or > system logs will give you a clue about the cause of the problem I'm willing to do some testing, but we need to have some steps that could lead to a working system. As I said in the first message, I fell back to Ubuntu - I don't have Fedora on the system any more. I'll have to put it there to do a test. If I hadn't done the fall back, I wouldn't be able to write these emails.
