core 3 hangs

[solarflow 99]

>From: "Thomas Cameron" <thomas.cameron at camerontech.com>
>Reply-To: For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list at redhat.com>
>To: "For users of Fedora Core releases" <fedora-list at redhat.com>
>Subject: Re: core 3 hangs
>Date: Sun, 30 Jan 2005 21:31:32 -0600
>
>----- Original Message ----- From: "solarflow 99" <solarflow99 at hotmail.com>
>To: <fedora-list at redhat.com>
>Sent: Sunday, January 30, 2005 9:05 PM
>Subject: core 3 hangs
>
>
>>I am having a problem booting core 3 on this 1 computer.  It boots fine up 
>>to the point where it says:
>>
>>Switching to a new root
>>
>>and, it just sits there.   Does anyone have any ideas what could cause it 
>>to hang there?  low ram?  I disabled selinux, and everthing else, upgraded 
>>the kernel, but it still hangs.
>>
>>Thanks...
>
>A little more info is needed.  What are the specs on your system (i.e. how 
>much memory).  Has it ever worked?  If so, what changed recently?  How did 
>you upgrade the kernel if it just hangs?
>
>Please have a look at http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html, 
>and then give us a little more to work with...

ok, it is a working installation, if I pull the 20 GB drive into my PIII-866 
(where I installed it from) it boots up just fine. The computer that it 
hangs with is an older PC, I was kind of embarassed to say the specs, but 
there must be other people running FC3 on older hardware too.  it's a P-100 
16MB ram, I changed the kernel to the newest i586 rpm, it won't even boot up 
with i686 anyway.  I have selinux disabled.  I'm just wondering what happens 
when linux displays "Switching to a new root"  just before the Init process 
starts.

thanks for the reply

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