installation help
Jim Cornette
fc-cornette at insight.rr.com
Fri Mar 25 03:27:52 UTC 2005
Paul wrote:
> Alexander Dalloz wrote:
>
>> Am Do, den 24.03.2005 schrieb Paul um 16:13:
>>
>>
>>> I tried and failed to install this OS on my laptop (PIII-650 384 megs
>>> of ram). I did this by downloading FC3-i386-DVD.iso and burning it
>>> onto a dvd with my desktop (running Windows XP), and then
>>> installing. I had it destroy all former partitions (Windows ME) that
>>> was on there previously, and everything seemed to go very well. Then
>>> it was done about a half an hour later and I rebooted.
>>>
>>> It hangs while trying to boot up and I can't figure out the cause.
>>> Here's the information I see during bootup that may or maynot be
>>> relevant :
>>>
>>> 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
>>>
>>
>>
>> Remove the "rhgb" parameter from the kernel line. To do so press "a"
>> while sitting at the grub boot screen. You then see the kernel parameter
>> line and there remove "rhgb". Then boot. Probably that will fix it. If
>> it does you will later have to either make the kernel parameter line
>> change being default or find the trouble maker. Would be needed to know
>> what graphics card you have in the host.
>>
>> Alexander
>>
>>
>>
>>
> (when I say hang, I mean that it just stops. The information displayed
> above stays there for hours if I let it.)
>
> This didn't solve the problem. Here's the screen I'm staring at now
> instead:
>
> Booting command-list
> root (hd0,0)
> Filesystem type is ext2fs, partition type 0x83
> kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.9-1.667 ro root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 quiet
> [Linux-bzImage, setup=0x1400, size=0x155da5]
> initrd /initrd-2.6.9-1.667.img
> [Linux-initrd @ 0x17ee4000, 0xebc97 bytes]
> Uncompressing Linux... Ok, booting the kernel.
> audit(1111703767.4294965660:0): initialized
> Red Hat nash version 4.1.18 starting
> Reading all physical volumes. This may take a while
> Found volume group "VolGroup00" using metadata type lvm2
> 2 logical volumes(s) in volume group "VolGroup00" now active
> INIT: version 2.85 booting
> Setting default font (latarcyrheb-sun16)
> [ OK }
>
> Welcome to Fedora Core
> Press 'I' to enter interactive startup.
> Starting udev:
> [ OK ]
> Initializing hardware... storage network audio
>
>
> Still hanging (stopping) here and doing nothing. It has an S3 Savage/IX
> Graphics Controller.
>
> The complete specs in PDF format are at the Toshiba website at this
> address:
> http://www.csd.toshiba.com/cgi-bin/tais/su/su_sc_outFrm.jsp?moid=1073810427&ct=DS&soid=638150&BV_SessionID=@@@@1641604106.1111702530@@@@&BV_EngineID=ccciaddeeijdddjcgfkceghdgngdgnn.0
>
>
I noticed that the webpage specified that you have acpi power
management. Some laptops have broken acpi and must be booted using
acpi=off in the grub config file. In my case, I must add acpi=on in the
kernel line to get my computer to boot.
I think that acpi is enabled in the kernel now, so most likely you might
have luck with adding acpi=off in the grub boot.
I supposed the same problem that Alexander mentioned regarding the
removal of rhgb from the grub entry during bootup.
I have this example added to my grub.conf file. You can edit the grub
line to reflect similar parameters and see how they work.
Pressing a during bootup and then backspacing out rhgb quiet and
replacing the line with a space followed by acpi=off might be worth a
try. If you want to boot into runlevel 3, then add another space
followed by a 3 as in the example below.
This is a guess of course.
Jim
------------
title Fedora Core (2.6.10-1.770_FC3)
root (hd0,0)
kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.10-1.770_FC3 ro root=LABEL=/ acpi=on 3
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