installation help

[Paul]

I just wanted to say that your guess was correct and that it booted up 
and finished installing just fine.

(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.)

Thanks.

Paul Walther


Jim Cornette wrote:

> 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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