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?
--
Matthew Saltzman
Clemson University Math Sciences
mjs AT clemson DOT edu
http://www.math.clemson.edu/~mjs
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