Post Install Booting Problem

[Thomas Paine]

I just installed F7 and I'm having a problem booting after the install.

My laptop hangs at Uncompressing Linux.

Should I be checking my grub line at this stage or what should I
submit for troubleshooting of this?

Thanks.

[Kam Leo]

On 5/31/07, Thom Paine  wrote:
> I just installed F7 and I'm having a problem booting after the install.
>
> My laptop hangs at Uncompressing Linux.
>
> Should I be checking my grub line at this stage or what should I
> submit for troubleshooting of this?
>
> Thanks.
>
> --
> -=/>Thom

First, go here:
http://forums.fedoraforum.org/forumdisplay.php?s=22399c03c5d845489bf6273f308...

If you have tried some/most of the suggestions and do not find an
answer come on back.

[Thomas Paine]

Nothing seems to stick out there.

I can post my grub line if that will help.

root (hd0,1)
Filesystem type is ext2fs partition 0x83
kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.21-1.3194.fc7 ro root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 rhgb quiet
[linux-bzimage, setup=0x1e00, size=0x1c9dd4]
initrd /initrd-2.6.21-1.3194.fc7.img linux-initrd @ 0x37c8b000, 0x3649db

[Kam Leo]

On 5/31/07, Thom Paine  wrote:
> Nothing seems to stick out there.
>
> I can post my grub line if that will help.
>
> root (hd0,1)
> Filesystem type is ext2fs partition 0x83
> kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.21-1.3194.fc7 ro root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 rhgb quiet
> [linux-bzimage, setup=0x1e00, size=0x1c9dd4]
> initrd /initrd-2.6.21-1.3194.fc7.img linux-initrd @ 0x37c8b000, 0x3649db
>
> --
> -=/>Thom

Edit grub.conf, remove "rhgb quiet" from the kernel... line, reboot,
and see what is holding up your system. You can also press the "a" key
at the grub boot prompt and enter any or all of these options:

ide=nodma
apm=off
acpi=off
vga=normal
nosmp
noapic

Since you have not provided this list with any of your hardware
specifics this all that I can give you.

[Thomas Paine]

Dell XPS M1210 Duo Core 2 2.0GHz Laptop.
Nvidia Geforce 7400 GO Video
2G ram
80G SATA 7200RPM Hard Drive
Broadcom 44xx NIC
Intel 3954 Wireless
Intel 82801 Sound

Thanks.

[Aaron Konstam]

On Thu, 2007-05-31 at 14:25 -0400, Thom Paine wrote:
> Nothing seems to stick out there.
>
> I can post my grub line if that will help.
>
> root (hd0,1)
> Filesystem type is ext2fs partition 0x83
> kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.21-1.3194.fc7 ro root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 rhgb quiet
> [linux-bzimage, setup=0x1e00, size=0x1c9dd4]
> initrd /initrd-2.6.21-1.3194.fc7.img linux-initrd @ 0x37c8b000, 0x3649db
>
> -- 
> -=/>Thom

Do your root volume names match those in the fstab? If not that would
cause the problem you are seeing.

[Thomas Paine]

Kam: all those options seemed to work.
On fedoraforums they suggest maxcpus=1 which also works.

I'm downloading the 64 bit version as I type this. I guess my machine
will run it.