Fedora Core 2 boot problems

Matthew Saltzman mjs at ces.clemson.edu
Tue Oct 5 15:11:16 UTC 2004


On Tue, 5 Oct 2004, Scot L. Harris wrote:

> 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.
>
> I would help if you listed the mother board type and model you are
> using.  There have been a few mother boards that have had problems, but
> in most if not all cases work arounds or fixes have been found and
> published.
>
> You should also include a list of any additional peripherals that are
> connected.  There was a recent thread concerning certain USB devices
> causing problems.

Also helpful would be the contents of /boot/grub/grub.conf and a list of
disk partitions and volume labels, for example, is /dev/hda2 really /?
Did you ask to install grub in the MBR or the partition containing /boot?

It sounds like you aren't seeing a graphical splash screen, just messages
on the console--is that right?

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		Matthew Saltzman

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