F7: Can't Start X

[Karl Larsen]

Dave Cross wrote:
> I wrote a couple of weeks ago, asking for help when the F7
> installation DVD wouldn't boot on my laptop. I didn't get a solution
> to my problem so I installed F7 using the following solution:
>
> * Install minimal FC6 from installation media
> * yum update to latest versions of everything
> * Install F7 versions of fedora-release and fedora-release-notes rpms
> * yum update to update all rpms to F7
>
> It took a while, but eventually I was finished and I had a FC6 system
> where all rpms had been updated to their F7 versions. Then I rebooted
> the laptop.
>
> That's when it went wrong. The boot sequence got as far as starting X
> when it hung. Further investigation shows that I can boot into
> runlevel 3, but it hangs when I run startx. There don't seem to be any
> error logs written.
>
> During the boot sequence I see a couple of error messages that mention
> not being able to access /dev/hda5. That bothers me as I thought that
> all disk devices were /dev/sdaX in F7.
>
> If it helps, the laptop is a Philips X51[1]. But I recently learnt
> that it's actually a rebadged Twinhead D12[2].
>
> Any advice on how I can get a solution to this problem?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Dave...
>
> [1] 
> http://support.thetechguys.com/layout.aspx?ID=%7B04711dc8-e1fb-4d03-9837-d9cc7f333fa3%7D 
>
> [2] http://www.twinhead.com.tw/product_notebook/12D.asp
>
    Hi Dave, you did too much in one step. You should have stopped when 
your FC6 was done and rebooted a few times to see if it really works. 
Then upgrade with yum just a few things at a time. Then check again.

Sounds bad what you there now.

Karl