Crashing problem on firstboot, FC2 install

[Matt Morgan]

Scot L. Harris wrote:

>On Wed, 2004-08-04 at 16:31, Matt Morgan wrote:
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>>I'm trying to install FC2 on my computer, a white-box with Asus 
>>motherboard and hyperthreading 2.8Ghz Intel P4. I'm getting fairly 
>>random crashing upon firstboot ("random" meaning the point at which is 
>>crashes varies, but it always crashes).
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>Have you tried booting to single user mode?  Or run level 3 to eliminate
>X as the problem?  
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I was able to boot to single-user mode. I don't remember trying run 
level 3. But it did not seem like X had anything to do with it, since 
the crashes occurred at various times in the boot process ("starting 
sshd," "starting cups," etc.).

>And to eliminate some of the possible hardware issues have you run a
>memory test just to make sure your memory is not flaky?
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I have not, but I've been using FC1 on this computer very successfully 
for a while now. But that's a good point--I'll definitely try a memory 
test next time I try FC2. Thanks for the tip.

>What kind of harddrives are you using?  
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ATA; one WD 80Gb drive. A Sony CD-RW is on the other IDE bus.

>What does your partition table look like?  Particularly the swap
>partition as it seems that may be a sticking point.
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I may not remember exactly, but I think I had 200Mb of /boot, 6Gb of / 
(root), 512Mb of swap (to match my RAM), and then the remainder /home. 
Grub was in the MBR.

>Are you dual booting?
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No, it was a clean install on formatted partitions.

Thanks!