On Fri, 2009-12-25 at 19:23 +0100, Roberto Ragusa wrote:
> Ashley M. Kirchner wrote:
> >
> > I have an old Netfinity 5000 server that used to run WinNT and I'd
> > like to install Fedora on it, any "recent" version would do (basically,
> > from 10 up). I started with a Fedora 12 DVD and it booted partway ...
> > froze, then the screen said 'Cannot find root partition.' So I decided
> > to try a Fedora 10 disc instead, same result. Tried using an F10 LIVE
> > KDE disk, same thing. It just won't boot up.
> >
> > Hardware wise, it has 2 SCSI drives in it, and an IDE DVD drive. A
> > dual head Matrox card has been put in to replace the original planar
> > video on the board. Any suggestions where I should start diagnosing
> > this beast? Thanks!
>
> It sounds like a problem in detecting the DVD drive. Strange, if it
> is just IDE.
>
> I woud try some other Live distribution, just to have more data
> (does if fail? what kind of controller does it see? ...).
> Old glorious Knoppyx, for example.
Another possibility: Does it boot from CD1 of the CD distro?
Once it hangs, can you change VCs (<ctrl>-<alt>-<F2>, etc.)? There's a
shell on VC2 and a few different log streams on VCs 3-5. Maybe one will
give you a hint.
--
Matthew Saltzman
Clemson University Math Sciences
mjs AT clemson DOT edu
http://www.math.clemson.edu/~mjs
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