Boot hangs after fresh install

Patrick Boutilier boutilpj at ednet.ns.ca
Sun Jan 2 20:43:03 UTC 2005



On 02/01/05 04:38 PM, Jack Spaar wrote:
> On Sat, 01 Jan 2005 15:15:52 -0500, Ned Voorhees wrote:
> 
> 
>>Thanks very much Dave.  
>>
>>I was able to remove the "quiet" as you suggested.  The boot process
>>messages look good up until I see the message "Configuring kernel
>>parameters:" on a line by itself.  That is the last message that I see
>>when it hangs.  I can hit return and see line feeds at this point, but
>>nothing else seems to be going on (no hard drive activity, etc.).

X is probably failing to start. Remove rhgb from the grub kernel line 
and then figure out why X isn't starting.

>>
>>Any further thoughts or suggestions (Dave or anyone else)?
>>
>>Thanks for your help,
>>Ned
> 




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