the progressive bar at the bottom of the screen starts out blue ending with Fedora 13. When it reaches Fedora 13 it turns white and thats it
- nothing happens after that.
Does it just go white or does it fade to white. A white screen sounds like the X server/graphics being the problem, so the '3' failure case is odd.
When I edit the boot prompt editing the kernel line - I add a space and 3, it still does not boot, I get the text that I have not seen before and it halts, I think that last thing displayed is "killed"
The content of the text is somewhat important if you want anyone to be able to debug it.
I'm thinking I'm having a problem with the internal hard drive. It shutdown last night and the problem started when I tried to boot this morning.
Boot with "init=/bin/sh"
Then at the # prompt
fsck -a / fsck -a /boot sync sync reboot
This will bring up just the kernel itself and a shell (no init, no services), and you can then force a check of the file systems. If there is anything inconsistent on the Linux side that should show it up and probably fix it.