lock up at log in

[James Wilkinson]

Ryan Krauss wrote:
> I have caused a problem with my Fedora Core 2 installation.  I was
> trying to add a small fat32 partition to my hard drive.  Instead of
> taking the space from my existing fat32 partition or my NTFS partition,
> Partition Commender decided to take the space out of the swap partition.
> And unfortunately, the back stepping feature so proudly proclaimed on
> the partition commander box decided not to remember how to undo this.  I
> managed to undo it manually, but now whenever I try to boot into Linux,
> my computer locks up after I try to log in.  I tried deleting the line
> that mounts the swap space from the fstab file.  Other than that, I have
> no idea what to try.  I tried booting into the linux rescue mode, but
> didn't really know what to do once I logged in.
>  
> How do I go about trouble shooting and fixing this problem?

Are you logging in graphically? Try pressing Ctrl-Alt-F1 and logging in
there. Let us know if it works, and we can go from there.

James.
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