Can't bring up Fedora Core 6

David Timms dtimms at iinet.net.au
Fri Nov 24 11:06:48 UTC 2006


Michael Satterwhite wrote:
> After installing Fedora Core 6, I couldn't get it to boot.
> 
> The first time, I tried installing it with gnome and kde. Note that I
> tested the media before installation. When I tried to boot it after
> installation, it hung at syscall_call+0x7/0xb.
> 
> I tried another installation, this time with just gnome (I figured I
> could install kde after the system was up). When I tried to boot it
> after install, I got
> 
> Mounting local filesyste          [Failed]
Did you keep some partitions from your old system ?
This can occur when a mount folder has not been correctly marked with 
selinux.

Try booting: linux rescue, chroot /mnt/sysimage, and check the 
/etc/fstab makes sense.

David T.




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