Boot hangs after fresh install
Kam Leo
kam.leo at gmail.com
Sun Jan 2 20:33:53 UTC 2005
On Sun, 2 Jan 2005 12:02:12 -0000, Darren Coleman <daz at superficial.net> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm not sure if this will be any help to you really, I just thought I'd
> share my experiences.
>
> I too tried installing Fedora Core (2) on my "old" Linux PC, which is pretty
> basic in terms of configuration - one hard drive, graphics card, Athlon
> 1.3Ghz Thunderbird processor, no sound card or other peripherals, 768Mb of
> RAM.
>
> After I had installed Fedora in exactly the same way as you and rebooted,
> the boot process hung at exactly the same point. I tried all kinds of
> kernel boot parameters to no avail.
>
> In the end, on a whim, I installed Red Hat 9 which worked flawlessly first
> time.
>
> I upgraded the kernel on my Red Hat 9 installation to a recent version of
> the 2.6 kernel, a process I have done countless times on other systems, and
> when I booted the new kernel it got stuck at exactly the same position as
> Fedora Core did. It wasn't kernel panic'ing or anything like that, it
> wasn't even getting to the first step.
>
> The only thing I could conclude was that there was some serious hardware
> incompatibility between my system and the 2.6.x kernel. From the sounds of
> it you have the same problem.
>
> I would be interested to know what your hardware configuration is so I can
> compare it against mine, as I would like to install and use Fedora
> successfully at some point.
>
> Regards,
>
> Darren
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: fedora-list-bounces at redhat.com [mailto:fedora-list-
> > bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Ned Voorhees
> > Sent: 01 January 2005 20:16
> > To: Dave Jones
> > Cc: For users of Fedora Core releases
> > Subject: Re: Boot hangs after fresh install
> >
> > Thanks very much Dave.
> >
> > I was able to remove the "quiet" as you suggested. The boot process
> > messages look good up until I see the message "Configuring kernel
> > parameters:" on a line by itself. That is the last message that I see
> > when it hangs. I can hit return and see line feeds at this point, but
> > nothing else seems to be going on (no hard drive activity, etc.).
> >
> > Any further thoughts or suggestions (Dave or anyone else)?
> >
> > Thanks for your help,
> > Ned
> >
> >
> >
> > On Sat, 1 Jan 2005 14:55:23 -0500, Dave Jones <davej at redhat.com> wrote:
> > > On Sat, Jan 01, 2005 at 02:50:42PM -0500, Ned Voorhees wrote:
> > > > Below are the messages shown on the screen at boot time:
> > > > --- snip ---
> > > > Booting 'Fedora Core (2.6.9-1.667)'
> > > > root (hd0,0)
> > > > Filesystem type is ext2fs, partition type 0x83
> > > > kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.9-1.667 ro root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 rhgb
> > quiet
> > > > [Linux-bzImage, setup=0z1400, size=0x155da5]
> > > > initrd /initrd-2.6.9-1.667.img
> > > > [Linux-initrd at 0x7ef3000, 0xecfed bytes]
> > > > --- snip ---
> > > >
> > > > The above is all that is shown on the screen when the boot process
> > > > hangs. If anyone has any suggestions on what I might want to do or
> > > > check, I would very much appreciate it.
> > >
> > > When you get to the bootloader screen, if you press 'e' you
> > > can edit the command line, and remove 'quiet' from it.
> > > You'll then see all the kernel messages, and see exactly where
> > > it hangs.
> > >
> > > Dave (hating 'quiet' more and more each day)
> > >
If you want to test your graphics, I/O, and memory try either a
Knoppix or Ubuntu Linux distro. They both provide live CDs with 2.6.9
kernels.
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