FC3 and original kernel linux-2.6.9 problem

[Jonathan Berry]

Hi,
On Wed, 10 Nov 2004 22:31:02 -0500, Gang Qin <gangqin at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I installed FC3 with root filesystem and swap partition not inside the
> "Linux LVM", that is, /dev/hda1 as /boot, /dev/hda2 as /, and
> /dev/hda3 as swap partition. But after I installed the original kernel
> linux-2.6.9 and configured the grub.conf with
> 
> kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.9 ro root=/dev/hda2 rhgb quiet

The kernel on my FC3 system is vmlinuz-2.6.9-1.667.  Did you change
the name?  By original kernel, do you mean the default one in FC3? 
Perhaps it might help to see your entire grub entry.  I assume you
have "root (hd0,0)" on the line above?

> the booting always hangs after "uncompress linux, successful"
> 
> Could anybody please help me? Thank you.
> 
> Gang

Jonathan