f10dvd installs but won't boot

[jackson byers]

>>selecting the norhgbquiet stanza
>>gives me a  long list of boot msgs, lasting longer than seen before
>>and it appears to quit
>>starting X server

>>screen then goes blank

>>does this help narrow down what is wrong?

>>Jack
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Craig responded
 >not really...

>Comment the line that says hiddenmenu (add # in front) and you will see
>the choices

thank you, idid not know that

norhgbquiet is not a valid option...simply remove the entire thing (the
>words no, rhgb and quiet)


I did not use norhgbquiet as an option, just as a phrase in title
I removed  all of "rhgb quiet" for this stanza


>  Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
>/dev/sda1   *           1        2676    21494938+  83  Linux
>which makes /dev/sda1 way larger than just a /boot volume so I'm sort of
>confused what you actually have there.


sda1 is the entire f10 /  , no separate /boot partition,
is that a problem?
I trying to not use LVM

>If after booting Fedora 5, you do something like this as root...

>mkdir /mnt/sda1
>mkdir /mnt/sda3
>mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/sda1
>mount /dev/sda3 /mnt/sda3

>I'd be interested to know what you got as a result of these commands...

>ls -l /mnt/sda1
>ls -l /mnt/sda3

sda3 is being used for another ancient rh8 linux
for a legacy app  and should be playing no role
in my problems here

booted into fc5 I have sda1 mounted on /f10liv
root at bootp ~]# mount
/dev/sdb6 on / type ext3 (rw)
proc on /proc type proc (rw)
sysfs on /sys type sysfs (rw)
devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,gid=5,mode=620)
/dev/sda1 on /f10liv type ext3 (rw)
...


[root at bootp ~]# ls -l /f10liv
total 116
drwxr-xr-x   2 root root  4096 May  3 05:17 bin
drwxr-xr-x   4 root root  4096 May  3 05:08 boot
drwxr-xr-x   2 root root  4096 May  3 04:58 dev
drwxr-xr-x 115 root root 12288 May  4 07:22 etc
drwxr-xr-x   2 root root  4096 Sep  6  2008 home
drwxr-xr-x  17 root root 12288 May  3 05:17 lib
drwx------   2 root root 16384 May  3 04:56 lost+found
drwxr-xr-x   2 root root  4096 Sep  6  2008 media
drwxr-xr-x   2 root root  4096 Sep  6  2008 mnt
drwxr-xr-x   2 root root  4096 Sep  6  2008 opt
drwxr-xr-x   2 root root  4096 May  3 04:56 proc
drwxr-x---   5 root root  4096 May  3 08:25 root
drwxr-xr-x   2 root root 12288 May  3 05:17 sbin
drwxr-xr-x   2 root root  4096 May  3 04:58 selinux
drwxr-xr-x   2 root root  4096 Sep  6  2008 srv
drwxr-xr-x   2 root root  4096 May  3 04:56 sys
drwxrwxrwt   5 root root  4096 May  4 07:23 tmp
drwxr-xr-x  13 root root  4096 May  3 05:03 usr
drwxr-xr-x  20 root root  4096 May  3 05:19 var
[root at bootp ~]#



>and I'm gathering that you must be using 36 GB SCSI disks because on a
>Fedora 5 boot, if these were not scsi disks, they would likely
>be /dev/hda|/dev/hdb

I explicitly said they are scsi disks in one of my responses
and yes they are 36gb
Again, does using scsi disks mean i have special requirements?

Jack
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