Fedora Core 2 boot problems

[Bob Chiodini]

On Tue, 2004-10-05 at 09:57, Darren Coleman wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I hope someone out there will be able to help, I think I have a somewhat
> unique problem.
> 
> I have installed Fedora Core 2 on my system successfully but when I try to
> boot it after the install I get as far as the Grub loader, and then it just
> sits there.
> 
> For reference I am *NOT* dual booting or anything like it, the system has a
> single IDE hard disk (no floppy drive) which is used by FC2 only.
> 
> Whenever I attempt to boot the system, it loads the GRUB loader and gives me
> the option to select the kernel I want to boot (obviously only one
> available), then shows the following:
> 
> Booting 'Fedora Core (2.6.5-1.358)'
> 
> root (hd0,0)
>  Filesystem type is ext2fs, partition type 0x83
> kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.5-1.358 ro root=/dev/hda2
>    [Linux-bzImage, setup=0x1400, size=0x1235b7]
> initrd /initrd-2.6.5-1.358.img
>    [Linux-initrd @ 0x2ffb2000, 0x2d9b1 bytes]
> 
> ..and that's it.
> 
> No "Uncompressing the kernel".. nothing.. just a flashing cursor.
> 
> I've tried rebooting several times as well as reinstalling, allowing Disk
> Druid to automatically partition the drive, tried installing GRUB on the MBR
> or First Boot Sector, etc to no avail.
> 
> I'm totally stumped as its not a complex configuration and in terms of
> hardware installed all that's in the PC is a plain graphics card and a
> network card.  There is nothing out of the ordinary.
> 
> I have never had these problems installing Red Hat 9 and have installed RH9
> on several PCs without this issue.
> 
> Anyone got any suggestions?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Darren

Darren,

Try booting in single user or init level 3.  Append 'single' or 3 to the
kernel command line during GRUB (hit 'a' when presented with the initial
menu).

Single or 3 should disable the quiet mode and graphical boot loader,
though it doesn't sound like you're getting that far.

Bob...
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