Fedora Core 2 hangs at enabling swap space

[dkutz at telusplanet.net]

Hello 

I recently installed Fedora Core 2 on my laptop (a dual boot system Windows XP 
FC2) an Averatec 6100 Pentium 4 with 3 ghz processor, 512 mb ram, 40gb hd, and 
the install went ok but when i try to boot to FC2. I got an error message that 
said, "modprobe: FATAL: Error inserting floppy 
(/lib/modules/2.6.543585smp/kernel/drivers/block/floppy.ko): no such device". 
I fixed this problem by booting in as a single user. To fix this I rebooted 
the system and booted in as a single user and edited the first line of the 
file modprobe.conf to read "install floppy /bin/true" and that fixed that. I 
rebooted and the system now hangs at enabling swap space. I have looked for a 
solution on many search engines and in IRC chat to no avail. Can anyone help 
me with this. Thanks in advance. PythonPro
dkutz at telusplanet.net