Dave Cross wrote:
I wrote a couple of weeks ago, asking for help when the F7
installation DVD wouldn't boot on my laptop. I didn't get a solution
to my problem so I installed F7 using the following solution:
* Install minimal FC6 from installation media
* yum update to latest versions of everything
* Install F7 versions of fedora-release and fedora-release-notes rpms
* yum update to update all rpms to F7
It took a while, but eventually I was finished and I had a FC6 system
where all rpms had been updated to their F7 versions. Then I rebooted
the laptop.
That's when it went wrong. The boot sequence got as far as starting X
when it hung. Further investigation shows that I can boot into
runlevel 3, but it hangs when I run startx. There don't seem to be any
error logs written.
During the boot sequence I see a couple of error messages that mention
not being able to access /dev/hda5. That bothers me as I thought that
all disk devices were /dev/sdaX in F7.
If it helps, the laptop is a Philips X51[1]. But I recently learnt
that it's actually a rebadged Twinhead D12[2].
Any advice on how I can get a solution to this problem?
Thanks,
Dave...
[1]
http://support.thetechguys.com/layout.aspx?ID=%7B04711dc8-e1fb-4d03-9837-d9cc7f333fa3%7D
[2] http://www.twinhead.com.tw/product_notebook/12D.asp
Hi Dave, you did too much in one step. You should have stopped when
your FC6 was done and rebooted a few times to see if it really works.
Then upgrade with yum just a few things at a time. Then check again.
Sounds bad what you there now.
Karl
