Fedora 7 not booting after install

[Dotan Cohen]

After a thorough backup, I've just installed F7. The install
succeeded, however booting gets stuck at this message:
Uncompressing Linux... Ok, booting the kernel.

How to continue? This is the first boot.

Thanks in advance.

Dotan Cohen

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[Sam Varshavchik]

Dotan Cohen writes:

>  After a thorough backup, I've just installed F7. The install
>  succeeded, however booting gets stuck at this message:
>  Uncompressing Linux... Ok, booting the kernel.
>  
>  How to continue? This is the first boot.
>  
>  Thanks in advance. 
The first step is to press Enter at the GRUB prompt, then edit the kernel 
boot command to remove the "quiet" parameter.

This should provide more clues as to where in the boot process it's stuck.

[Dotan Cohen]

On 04/08/07, Sam Varshavchik <mrsam(a)courier-mta.com&gt; wrote:
>  Dotan Cohen writes:
>
>  > After a thorough backup, I've just installed F7. The install
>  > succeeded, however booting gets stuck at this message:
>  > Uncompressing Linux... Ok, booting the kernel.
>  >
>  > How to continue? This is the first boot.
>  >
>  > Thanks in advance.
>
>  The first step is to press Enter at the GRUB prompt, then edit the kernel
>  boot command to remove the "quiet" parameter.
>
>  This should provide more clues as to where in the boot process it's stuck.
>  
Thanks. It's stalling after:

--snip--
Simple Boot Flag at 0x79 set to 0x1
apm: BIOS not found.
audit: initializing netlink socket (disabled)

Dotan Cohen

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[Andy Green]

Somebody in the thread at some point said:

> > The first step is to press Enter at the GRUB prompt, then edit
> the kernel
> > boot command to remove the "quiet" parameter. 
>  Simple Boot Flag at 0x79 set to 0x1
>  apm: BIOS not found.
>  audit: initializing netlink socket (disabled) 
Gah sounds bad.  At the GRUB boot prompt, hit 'A'... what are the kernel
parameters you already had set there?

If it says something like acpi=off try deleting it.

-Andy

[Dotan Cohen]

On 04/08/07, Andy Green <andy(a)warmcat.com&gt; wrote:
>  Somebody in the thread at some point said:
>
>  >> The first step is to press Enter at the GRUB prompt, then edit the kernel
>  >> boot command to remove the "quiet" parameter.
>
>  > Simple Boot Flag at 0x79 set to 0x1
>  > apm: BIOS not found.
>  > audit: initializing netlink socket (disabled)
>
>  Gah sounds bad.  At the GRUB boot prompt, hit 'A'... what are the kernel
>  parameters you already had set there?
>
>  If it says something like acpi=off try deleting it.
>  
grub append> ro root=LABEL=/ rhgb quiet

Dotan Cohen

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[Dotan Cohen]

On 04/08/07, Dotan Cohen <dotancohen(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote:
>  On 04/08/07, Andy Green <andy(a)warmcat.com&gt; wrote:
>  > Somebody in the thread at some point said:
>  >
>  > >> The first step is to press Enter at the GRUB prompt, then edit the kernel
>  > >> boot command to remove the "quiet" parameter.
>  >
>  > > Simple Boot Flag at 0x79 set to 0x1
>  > > apm: BIOS not found.
>  > > audit: initializing netlink socket (disabled)
>  >
>  > Gah sounds bad.  At the GRUB boot prompt, hit 'A'... what are the kernel
>  > parameters you already had set there?
>  >
>  > If it says something like acpi=off try deleting it.
>  >
>
>  grub append> ro root=LABEL=/ rhgb quiet
>  
Googling the problem led me to retry "acpi=off" after "quiet" on the
grub options line. I was adding it to the last line, and it wasn't
helping.

With ACPI disabled, how could I suspend this laptop?

Dotan Cohen

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[Sam Varshavchik]

Dotan Cohen writes:

>  On 04/08/07, Dotan Cohen <dotancohen(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote:
> > On 04/08/07, Andy Green <andy(a)warmcat.com&gt; wrote:
> > > Somebody in the thread at some point said:
> > >
> > > >> The first step is to press Enter at the GRUB prompt, then edit the
> kernel
> > > >> boot command to remove the "quiet" parameter.
> > >
> > > > Simple Boot Flag at 0x79 set to 0x1
> > > > apm: BIOS not found.
> > > > audit: initializing netlink socket (disabled)
> > >
> > > Gah sounds bad.  At the GRUB boot prompt, hit 'A'... what are the
> kernel
> > > parameters you already had set there?
> > >
> > > If it says something like acpi=off try deleting it.
> > >
> >
> > grub append> ro root=LABEL=/ rhgb quiet
> >
>  
>  Googling the problem led me to retry "acpi=off" after "quiet" on the
>  grub options line. I was adding it to the last line, and it wasn't
>  helping.
>  
>  With ACPI disabled, how could I suspend this laptop? 
Well, if you can't even boot, suspend is the last of your problems.

[Kam Leo]

On 8/4/07, Sam Varshavchik <mrsam(a)courier-mta.com&gt; wrote:
>  Dotan Cohen writes:
>
>  > On 04/08/07, Dotan Cohen <dotancohen(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote:
>  >> On 04/08/07, Andy Green <andy(a)warmcat.com&gt; wrote:
>  >> > Somebody in the thread at some point said:
>  >> >
>  >> > >> The first step is to press Enter at the GRUB prompt, then edit the
> kernel
>  >> > >> boot command to remove the "quiet" parameter.
>  >> >
>  >> > > Simple Boot Flag at 0x79 set to 0x1
>  >> > > apm: BIOS not found.
>  >> > > audit: initializing netlink socket (disabled)
>  >> >
>  >> > Gah sounds bad.  At the GRUB boot prompt, hit 'A'... what are the
> kernel
>  >> > parameters you already had set there?
>  >> >
>  >> > If it says something like acpi=off try deleting it.
>  >> >
>  >>
>  >> grub append> ro root=LABEL=/ rhgb quiet
>  >>
>  >
>  > Googling the problem led me to retry "acpi=off" after "quiet" on
> the
>  > grub options line. I was adding it to the last line, and it wasn't
>  > helping.
>  >
>  > With ACPI disabled, how could I suspend this laptop?
>
>  Well, if you can't even boot, suspend is the last of your problems. 
First thing to do is delete "rhgb quiet" from the grub boot line. I
recommend that you leave those two parameters off until you get a
stable system or just leave them off all together.

[Karl Larsen]

Dotan Cohen wrote:
>  After a thorough backup, I've just installed F7. The install
>  succeeded, however booting gets stuck at this message:
>  Uncompressing Linux... Ok, booting the kernel.
>  
>  How to continue? This is the first boot.
>  
>  Thanks in advance.
>  
>  Dotan Cohen
>  
>  http://lyricslist.com/
>  http://what-is-what.com/
>   
Looks like grub is not set up right. Does it just stop or does it say 
kernel panic?



-- 

	Karl F. Larsen, AKA K5DI
	Linux User
	#450462   http://counter.li.org.

[Aaron Konstam]

On Sat, 2007-08-04 at 12:25 -0600, Karl Larsen wrote:
>  Dotan Cohen wrote:
>  > After a thorough backup, I've just installed F7. The install
>  > succeeded, however booting gets stuck at this message:
>  > Uncompressing Linux... Ok, booting the kernel.
> >   
>  > How to continue? This is the first boot.
> >   
>  > Thanks in advance.
> >   
>  > Dotan Cohen
> >   
>  > http://lyricslist.com/
>  > http://what-is-what.com/
> >   
>  Looks like grub is not set up right. Does it just stop or
> does it say 
>  kernel panic? 
Dotan this looks like a can't reach the kernel situation. Use a
rescue
disk (or linux rescue at boot) and look at your grub.conf. Be sure that
kernel locations and root entries are correct. Check especially your
Label entries that they match those in fstab and the partitions
themselves.
>   
-- 
Aaron Konstam <akonstam(a)sbcglobal.net&gt;

[Dotan Cohen]

On 04/08/07, Aaron Konstam <akonstam(a)sbcglobal.net&gt; wrote:
>  Dotan this looks like a can't reach the kernel situation. Use a
> rescue
>  disk (or linux rescue at boot) and look at your grub.conf. Be sure that
>  kernel locations and root entries are correct. Check especially your
>  Label entries that they match those in fstab and the partitions
>  themselves. 
Thanks, Aaron. I've installed Ubuntu just to get some work done, but
now I want to get F7 running. Ubuntu's grub has this (I think the same
as F7's grub) for booting F7:

root (hd0,0)
kernel /bot/vmlinuz-2.6.21-1.3194.fc7 ro root=LABEL=/ [rhgb quiet
(this I removed)]
initrd /boot/initrd-2.6.21-1.3194.fc7.img
savedefault
boot

Looks right to me: root (hd0,0) should be the first (only) disk, and
the first partition. That's where F7 is: sda1. The Ubuntu grub line is
(hd0,1), on sda2, and it works so I know that the hd0 part is right.

Might the problem be that I'm not using LVM? I don't like LVM, and I
prefer regular partitions. I set these partitions up with the Ubuntu
installer, a few distro hops ago, and I've yet to have a problem with
it. I'm pretty sure that FC6 was on this partition setup, without LVM.

Dotan Cohen

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[Dotan Cohen]

On 04/08/07, Karl Larsen <k5di(a)zianet.com&gt; wrote:
>  Dotan Cohen wrote:
>  > After a thorough backup, I've just installed F7. The install
>  > succeeded, however booting gets stuck at this message:
>  > Uncompressing Linux... Ok, booting the kernel.
>  >
>  > How to continue? This is the first boot.
>  >
>  > Thanks in advance.
>  >
>  > Dotan Cohen
>  >
>  > http://lyricslist.com/
>  > http://what-is-what.com/
>  >
>  Looks like grub is not set up right. Does it just stop or does it say
>  kernel panic? 
No, no panic.

Dotan Cohen

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