Hi again Andy,
I typed an "a" when I saw the grub screen, then it chanaged screens. I typed in noacpi, but it didn't seem to work either. It still froze up when eth0 was starting. Thanks for taking the time to respond.
Regards,
Keith
--- Andy Green andy@warmcat.com wrote:
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Keith Brentson wrote: | Hello, | I have just installed Fedora Core 3 on a Dell Inspiron | 8600. The Install seemed to go well until the first | boot up. The system froze when it was trying to bring | eth-0 up. It did this several times. I have the newer | version of the dell Inspiron 8600 with a Broadcom 440x | integrated network controller. I also have the ATI | Mobility Radeon 9600 pro turbo. | I am a complete Linux Newbie, and some of the | explanations I've seen are definitely over my head. I | would appreciate if I could get some help, or be | directed to a help source suitable to my level.
I have a "similar" setup on an Inspiron 5150 with Broadcom 4401 Ethernet ~ and it is working fine. Two ideas spring to mind, both wondering if the problem is to do with the Interrupt associated with the Ethernet controller and ACPI.
- See if Dell have a BIOS update, and install it if
so (The only way I found to do so was to create a bootable CD that contains the Windows 98 recovery floppy image, since there is no floppy on my machine - thanks Dell)
- If that doesn't fix it, at the grub display type
'a' for append IIRC, and add the word "noacpi" to the kernel command line and see if that makes any difference.
- -Andy
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Keith Brentson wrote: | Hi again Andy, | | I typed an "a" when I saw the grub screen, then it | chanaged screens. I typed in noacpi, but it didn't | seem to work either. It still froze up when eth0 was | starting. | Thanks for taking the time to respond.
I think what I might do next is try to disable the Ethernet driver from starting.
IIRC bringing Eth0 up is in the part of the initscripts you can elect to enable or disable if you type 'I' during the startup sequence? This is totally from my dim memory.
If that is so, hit the 'I' key when you see "press 'I' to enter interactive startup" and when (if!) it asks, do not run the script to bring up eth0.
Then once you boot with no eth0, you can have a look in the logs to see if there is any diagnostic, and consider to bring eth0 up by hand while doing a tail -f /var/log/messages in another window to see what you can see.
- -Andy