Startup problem

[Fritz Whittington]

On or about 2004-07-06 01:17, Gene Heskett whipped out a trusty #2 
pencil and scribbled:

>On Tuesday 06 July 2004 02:01, Harry Zhang wrote:
>  
>
>>I'm very new to Linux, and had just finished installing Fedora Core
>>1,  The initial boot was succesful, however, the 2nd and 3rd ...
>>was not. The second time I boot (with grub) the system started to
>>the startup process, while the system tries to load, somewhere
>>around loading cups, instead of ok, it just froze, and the next
>>time I boot, it started again, but this time, it gave me that the
>>previous session was not shutdown cleanly, and then i tried to use
>>force checking the root, but it didn't work, instead, it shows this
>>error:
>>
>>Code: ff 0b 8b 4d e4 8b 75 e4 83 c1 2c 8b 51 04 8b 46 2c 89 50 04
>> <0>kernel panic: Aiee, killing interupt handler
>>In interrupt handler - not syncing
>>
>>but something strange, I didn't give up, so i tried again, this
>>time, samething but it did start, right after i force checking the
>>root, it boots to the system, and everything went well, but the
>>next time i boot, well same problem happens. I'm new to Linux, so I
>>don't know how to use a rescue mode to fix this problem. Can
>>someone please help me with this.
>>
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>There are instructions at the bottom of the grub screen, pick the 
>kernel you want to boot, hit the magic 'edit' key combo, then add the 
>word single to the end of the displayed line, and remove the 'ro' in 
>the middle of it and hit the enter key.  This will put you in single 
>user mode and let you try to fix it.
>
>It sounds like there is something wrong with the cups install, so what 
>you may want to do is use 'chkconfig' to turn cups off, see the 
>manpage for chkconfig's syntax to do that.  Don't stay in that mode 
>and poke around, you can muck things up pretty easily, but reboot 
>normally as soon as cups has been turned off.  Once you've got a good 
>boot, then you can play with cups from a xterm shell.
>  
>

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Fritz Whittington
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