core 3 hangs

[solarflow 99]

I am having a problem booting core 3 on this 1 computer.  It boots fine up 
to the point where it says:

Switching to a new root

and, it just sits there.   Does anyone have any ideas what could cause it to 
hang there?  low ram?  I disabled selinux, and everthing else, upgraded the 
kernel, but it still hangs.

Thanks...

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[thomas cameron]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "solarflow 99" 
To: 
Sent: Sunday, January 30, 2005 9:05 PM
Subject: core 3 hangs
> I am having a problem booting core 3 on this 1 computer.  It boots fine up 
> to the point where it says:
>
> Switching to a new root
>
> and, it just sits there.   Does anyone have any ideas what could cause it 
> to hang there?  low ram?  I disabled selinux, and everthing else, upgraded 
> the kernel, but it still hangs.
>
> Thanks...

A little more info is needed.  What are the specs on your system (i.e. how 
much memory).  Has it ever worked?  If so, what changed recently?  How did 
you upgrade the kernel if it just hangs?

Please have a look at http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html, 
and then give us a little more to work with...

Thanks,
Thomas

[solarflow 99]

> From: "Thomas Cameron" 
> Reply-To: For users of Fedora Core releases 
> To: "For users of Fedora Core releases" 
> Subject: Re: core 3 hangs
> Date: Sun, 30 Jan 2005 21:31:32 -0600
>
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "solarflow 99" 
> To: 
> Sent: Sunday, January 30, 2005 9:05 PM
> Subject: core 3 hangs
> > I am having a problem booting core 3 on this 1 computer.  It boots fine up 
> > to the point where it says:
> >
> > Switching to a new root
> >
> > and, it just sits there.   Does anyone have any ideas what could cause it 
> > to hang there?  low ram?  I disabled selinux, and everthing else, upgraded 
> > the kernel, but it still hangs.
> >
> > Thanks...
>
> A little more info is needed.  What are the specs on your system (i.e. how 
> much memory).  Has it ever worked?  If so, what changed recently?  How did 
> you upgrade the kernel if it just hangs?
>
> Please have a look at http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html, 
> and then give us a little more to work with...

ok, it is a working installation, if I pull the 20 GB drive into my PIII-866 
(where I installed it from) it boots up just fine. The computer that it 
hangs with is an older PC, I was kind of embarassed to say the specs, but 
there must be other people running FC3 on older hardware too.  it's a P-100 
16MB ram, I changed the kernel to the newest i586 rpm, it won't even boot up 
with i686 anyway.  I have selinux disabled.  I'm just wondering what happens 
when linux displays "Switching to a new root"  just before the Init process 
starts.

thanks for the reply

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[Tony Dietrich]

On Monday 31 Jan 2005 06:18, solarflow 99 wrote:
> > From: "Thomas Cameron" 
> > Reply-To: For users of Fedora Core releases 
> > To: "For users of Fedora Core releases" 
> > Subject: Re: core 3 hangs
> > Date: Sun, 30 Jan 2005 21:31:32 -0600
> >
> > ----- Original Message ----- From: "solarflow 99"
> >  To: 
> > Sent: Sunday, January 30, 2005 9:05 PM
> > Subject: core 3 hangs
> > > I am having a problem booting core 3 on this 1 computer.  It boots fine
> > > up to the point where it says:
> > >
> > > Switching to a new root
> > >
> > > and, it just sits there.   Does anyone have any ideas what could cause it
> > > to hang there?  low ram?  I disabled selinux, and everthing else,
> > > upgraded the kernel, but it still hangs.
> > >
> > > Thanks...
> >
> > A little more info is needed.  What are the specs on your system (i.e. how
> > much memory).  Has it ever worked?  If so, what changed recently?  How did
> > you upgrade the kernel if it just hangs?
> >
> > Please have a look at http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html,
> > and then give us a little more to work with...
>
> ok, it is a working installation, if I pull the 20 GB drive into my
> PIII-866 (where I installed it from) it boots up just fine. The computer
> that it hangs with is an older PC, I was kind of embarassed to say the
> specs, but there must be other people running FC3 on older hardware too. 
> it's a P-100 16MB ram, I changed the kernel to the newest i586 rpm, it
> won't even boot up with i686 anyway.  I have selinux disabled.  I'm just
> wondering what happens when linux displays "Switching to a new root"  just
> before the Init process starts.
>
> thanks for the reply

Simple answer ... it won't run .. or at least, it might boot up, eventually, 
but you'll be sitting there at the prompt for the next Century.

Do us a favour and look at the minimum specs for FC3.

[solarflow 99]

> Simple answer ... it won't run .. or at least, it might boot up, 
> eventually,
> but you'll be sitting there at the prompt for the next Century.
>
> Do us a favour and look at the minimum specs for FC3.

nice answer, I see you obviously don't know.  With advice like that, I don't 
know what would I do without you.

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[Tony Dietrich]

On Tuesday 01 Feb 2005 08:01, solarflow 99 wrote:
> > Simple answer ... it won't run .. or at least, it might boot up,
> > eventually,
> > but you'll be sitting there at the prompt for the next Century.
> >
> > Do us a favour and look at the minimum specs for FC3.
>
> nice answer, I see you obviously don't know.  With advice like that, I
> don't know what would I do without you.

wrong answer.
I pointed you at a freely available document published just for people that 
need to know the answer, like you.
I refuse to spend my time typing out an answer to people who cannot be 
bothered to do simply research.
Of course, you may spend your life being rude to others ... but I suspect you 
are totally unable to cope with their responses too.

[Dan Trainor]

Tony Dietrich wrote:
> On Tuesday 01 Feb 2005 08:01, solarflow 99 wrote:
> > > Simple answer ... it won't run .. or at least, it might boot up,
> > > eventually,
> > > but you'll be sitting there at the prompt for the next Century.
> > >
> > > Do us a favour and look at the minimum specs for FC3.
> >
> > nice answer, I see you obviously don't know.  With advice like that, I
> > don't know what would I do without you.
>
> wrong answer.
> I pointed you at a freely available document published just for people that 
> need to know the answer, like you.
> I refuse to spend my time typing out an answer to people who cannot be 
> bothered to do simply research.
> Of course, you may spend your life being rude to others ... but I suspect you 
> are totally unable to cope with their responses too.

Forgive Tony, please.  After all, he's British.  On top of that, he has 
probably not had his morning coffee.

But in all seriousness, most of your answers could probably be found by 
doing some simple research, even if it is google for "Fedora Core 3 
Requirements" - and I'll be damned, it's the first hit.

Please, others as well, do this kind of research prior to using this 
list.  We're all here to help, but we at least expect you to do a little 
bit of your homework before you ask the instructor for help.

Have a good morning, All (Even you, Tony)
-dant

[solarflow 99]

> From: Dan Trainor 
> Reply-To: [e-mail],For users of Fedora Core releases 
>
> To: For users of Fedora Core releases 
> Subject: Re: core 3 hangs
> Date: Tue, 01 Feb 2005 01:58:42 -0700
>
> Tony Dietrich wrote:
> > On Tuesday 01 Feb 2005 08:01, solarflow 99 wrote:
> > > > Simple answer ... it won't run .. or at least, it might boot up,
> > > > eventually,
> > > > but you'll be sitting there at the prompt for the next Century.
> > > >
> > > > Do us a favour and look at the minimum specs for FC3.
> > >
> > > nice answer, I see you obviously don't know.  With advice like that, I
> > > don't know what would I do without you.
> >
> > wrong answer.
> > I pointed you at a freely available document published just for people 
> > that need to know the answer, like you.
> > I refuse to spend my time typing out an answer to people who cannot be 
> > bothered to do simply research.
> > Of course, you may spend your life being rude to others ... but I suspect 
> > you are totally unable to cope with their responses too.
>
> Forgive Tony, please.  After all, he's British.  On top of that, he has 
> probably not had his morning coffee.
>
> But in all seriousness, most of your answers could probably be found by 
> doing some simple research, even if it is google for "Fedora Core 3 
> Requirements" - and I'll be damned, it's the first hit.
>
> Please, others as well, do this kind of research prior to using this list.  
> We're all here to help, but we at least expect you to do a little bit of 
> your homework before you ask the instructor for help.
>
> Have a good morning, All (Even you, Tony)

thanks, I had actually did some searching on google before I asked the 
question.  It really was a last resort, i've been using redhat linux for a 
long long time.  I increased the ram to 64MB but it still hung, just about 
any help would be useful.  The minimum specs i've always known were mainly 
because of the installer, and i've tried everything reasonably possible.

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[solarflow 99]

> From: Tony Dietrich 
> Reply-To: [e-mail],For users of Fedora Core releases 
>
> To: For users of Fedora Core releases 
> Subject: Re: core 3 hangs
> Date: Tue, 1 Feb 2005 08:41:33 +0000
>
> On Tuesday 01 Feb 2005 08:01, solarflow 99 wrote:
> > > Simple answer ... it won't run .. or at least, it might boot up,
> > > eventually,
> > > but you'll be sitting there at the prompt for the next Century.
> > >
> > > Do us a favour and look at the minimum specs for FC3.
> >
> > nice answer, I see you obviously don't know.  With advice like that, I
> > don't know what would I do without you.
>
> wrong answer.
> I pointed you at a freely available document published just for people that
> need to know the answer, like you.
> I refuse to spend my time typing out an answer to people who cannot be
> bothered to do simply research.
> Of course, you may spend your life being rude to others ... but I suspect 
> you
> are totally unable to cope with their responses too.

you're wrong.  You're saying I should be able to cope with you, being an 
idiot?  I don't think so.
If you have an attitude problem, I would suggest you keep your that to 
yourself.

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[thomas cameron]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "solarflow 99" 
To: 
Cc: 
Sent: Monday, January 31, 2005 12:18 AM
Subject: Re: core 3 hangs
> ok, it is a working installation, if I pull the 20 GB drive into my 
> PIII-866 (where I installed it from) it boots up just fine. The computer 
> that it hangs with is an older PC, I was kind of embarassed to say the 
> specs, but there must be other people running FC3 on older hardware too. 
> it's a P-100 16MB ram, I changed the kernel to the newest i586 rpm, it 
> won't even boot up with i686 anyway.  I have selinux disabled.  I'm just 
> wondering what happens when linux displays "Switching to a new root"  just 
> before the Init process starts.
>
> thanks for the reply

It means that the temporary root filesystem (ramdisk) used to boot the OS is 
getting unmounted and the physical disk's filesystem is getting mounted. 
The /initrd directory is where that happens - IIRC the initial ramdisk 
mounts on /initrd and then unmounts that to mount the real filesystem.

Thomas