problem in booting fedora core

[Phil Schaffner]

On Tue, 2004-12-28 at 13:06 -0600, RON FLORY wrote:
> RAVI GUPTA wrote:
> > PROBLEM 1:

Two suggestions unrelated to your technical problems:

1.  Do not use all CAPS.  This is the e-mail equivalent of shouting and
may be considered impolite.

2.  You are not asking about issues related to testing new Fedora
components.  The appropriate list for your questions would be
fedora-list: http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list

...
> > GRUB Loading stage 2 .....
> 
>   It sounds suspiciously like a setup, hard disk, or memory
> problem.
> 
>   * Are you overclocking the processor or the memory?
>   * could your power supply be too small?
>   * could you run processor/disk/ram diagnostics?
> 
>   - Try reverting your BIOS settings to non-aggressive "safe"
>     settings.
>   - are you running the latest BIOS?
>   - try a minimal install, with as few options as possible.
>   - as an experiment to see if the hardware is usable in its
>     current state, can you temporarily install RedHat 9.0
>     Linux, or NT, or XP on that machine and have it run reliably?
>         (no flames please, i did say "temporary" after all)

All good suggestions.  Might consider running memtest from the FC3
install disk.  Let it run for an extended time as errors may not show up
immediately.

Could try booting Basilisk
http://www.linux4all.de/livecd/basilisk/1.40/README-basilisk-1.40.htm or
Knoppix http://www.knoppix.org/ CD-based distributions.

Good luck,
Phil