serious boot problem with FC1

[James Wilkinson]

shatam bhattacharya wrote:
> Hi all,
>        i was using fedora core 1 for quite some time. Recently the
> booting is in jeopardy, all i can make out is that the machine blinks
> on the login prompt for a few times, then the CUI comes and a messege
> says "WAITING FOR FREE 123654 GOT 123645" and keeps blinking.


Do I understand you correctly?

You normally boot to a graphical mode login, with mouse pointer and the
works.

Then the graphical view disappears, and is replaced by a text mode
screen.

It only has the words you quoted: there's nothing about "Fedora Core 
release 1".

What happens if you press Ctrl-Alt-F1, do you get a text mode login
screen?

If you do, log in as root, CAREFULLY change /etc/inittab so the line
"id:5:initdefault:" reads "id:3:initdefault:", and reboot: you should
come up to the same login screen.

Then log in, run
startx > error.log 2>&1
and send error.log to the list.

Thanks,

James.

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