On Sat, 2008-03-22 at 15:36 +0000, Giulio Troccoli wrote: > I have just bought a new PC which I am going to use as a server. I have > been using Fedora Core 5 on the old one for about 5 years and I was very > happy with it. I am also using Fedora 8 on my laptop and I'm very happy > with it. > > The installation goes very well, I've got all the screens and I choose > what to install and what not. Mind you, at this point the server is NOT > yet connected to the router (if that makes a different). After the > installation has finished it ask to reboot, to which of course I say > yes. But the boot hangs, or so it seems. > > I've got the text output up to the point when it says "Starting udev". > with one error maybe. The message "dmi_save_oem_string_devices: out of > memory" appears. Then the screen goes black (and actually the monitor's > light goes yellow, like there wasn't any signal). Nothing seems to bring > it back to live. > > I've read that maybe I should use Fedora 7 instead of 8. As I said I > have been using Fedora 8 on my laptop for some time with no trouble at > all. But then again, it's a Pentium Centrino not a Dual Core. I'm using a Core Duo on F8 with no problems. Sounds like a hardware or BIOS problem with your new machine. Try running a Live CD (Fedora, Ubuntu, Knoppix ...) and see what happens. poc
