Install hang question ...

Endy endy at digitalgrotto.net
Sun Feb 6 19:35:18 UTC 2005


David Cary Hart wrote:

>On Sun, 2005-02-06 at 13:36 -0500, mconsidine at netreach.net wrote:
>  
>
>>Hi,
>>I believe I've correctly searched the archives for this
>>answer, but found nothing.  Hopefully, someone can point me
>>in the right direction ...
>>
>>I just finished a plain-vanilla install of Core 3.  Upon the
>>first reboot, I get to the following point on the screen :
>>
>>Starting udev: [ OK ]
>>Initializing hardware ... storage network audio done [ OK ]
>>Configuring kernel parameters:
>>
>>and at this point it seems to be hung.  Pressing
>><Ctrl><SysRq> results in
>>  /etc/init.d/functions: line 428:
>>/etc/rhgb/temp/rhgb-console: Interrupted system call
>>but it still seems hung.
>>
>>Does anyone have any suggestions as to what I need to
>>fix/reinstall to get this going?  There were no errors
>>during the install, and the only message I note upon booting
>>is
>>ACPI: Unable to locate RSDP
>>
>>    
>>
>Try noacpi on the boot command line
>
>  
>
>>The machine is a Dell Dimension XPS D300 (PII 300Mhz) with
>>128M RAM and one 8Gb harddisk.  The install is a fresh
>>"desktop" install (i.e. nothing is being preserved on the
>>old drive and default choices are selected for installation
>>options).
>>
>>FWIW, I've had RH 9 running on this machine before as part
>>of a dual boot system, so the machine is actually capable of
>>working :)
>>
>>Any fixes that people have or that I could be pointed to
>>would be appreciated.  And I really apologize if this is
>>covered somewhere and I've missed it.
>>
>>Regards,
>>Matt Considine
>>Doylestown, PA
>>
>>    
>>
If rhgb is causing the problem you can get into the GRUB menu select the 
right kernel, and press 'a' to edit the kernel arguments. Then remove 
the rhgb part.




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