On Tue, 2007-03-20 at 23:36 -0500, Jimmy Bradley wrote: > I don't think it's the hard drive, because the other distro I'm running > on the machine runs fine. I would rather be running Fedora though, and > if most of you think the problem is what I think it is, that's simple to > fix. > Anyway, thanks > Jim > Check to make sure you have a valid swap entry in fstab. fc5 on my iMac did not create a valid swap entry - I had to manually do that post install (I believe I had to make the swap partition as well).