Can't boot!

[Pedro Freire]

Have you tried to add "nomodeset" to the grub boot command ? 
Example: kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.29.2-126.fc11.i586 ro
root=/dev/VolGroup00/root rhgb quiet nomodeset

On Thu, 2009-05-14 at 09:35 -0700, Paul wrote:

> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: fedora-list-bounces at redhat.com 
> > [mailto:fedora-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Patrick 
> > O'Callaghan
> > Sent: Wednesday, May 13, 2009 6:47 PM
> > To: fedora-list at redhat.com
> > Subject: Re: Can't boot!
> > 
> > On Wed, 2009-05-13 at 21:25 -0400, William M. Quarles wrote:
> > > S P Arif Sahari Wibowo wrote:
> > > > On Wed, 13 May 2009, William M. Quarles wrote:
> > > >> The computer seems to "die" right about when X is about to start.
> > > > 
> > > > Can you try <ctrl><alt><F1> (and F2, F3, ...) to see of console 
> > > > login is on?
> > > > 
> > > OK, this PC is playing mean tricks on me. The past 10 times 
> > I've tried 
> > > to boot it, the boot has failed, and also, the keyboard stops 
> > > responding (so <Ctrl><Alt><anything> doesn't work). This thing is 
> > > behaving very inconsistently, because it just did a successful boot 
> > > and I was able to log in.
> > 
> > I'd say do a thorough memory check. The brief check done by a 
> > BIOS at boot time is not exhaustive enough and sporadic 
> > memory errors can cause all kinds of random woe. I recently 
> > pulled two 1GB sticks from my machine because memtest86+ 
> > found problems (actually I think the problems are with the 
> > motherboard slots rather the chips, but it amounts to the 
> > same thing). The machine lost half its RAM but now it works 
> > flawlessly.
> > 
> > http://www.memtest.org
> > 
> > poc
> 
> Are you by chance using some sort of nForce motherboard and DDR2 RAM? A lot
> of them simply don't push enough juice to the RAM to support 4 sticks
> without fiddling with the BIOS settings. Most often, reducing the RAM speed
> (i.e.: from 1066MHz to 800MHz in my case) and increasing the voltage being
> sent to the RAM slots does the trick.
> 
> - Paul
> 
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