Can't bring up Fedora Core 6

[Aaron Konstam]

On Fri, 2006-11-24 at 16:20 -0600, Michael Satterwhite wrote:
> Aaron Konstam wrote:
> > On Fri, 2006-11-24 at 11:20 -0600, Michael Satterwhite wrote:
> >> David Timms wrote:
> >>> 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.
> >> The only partition I kept from my old system was the /windows partition
> >> - I don't want to have to restore Win2K just because I changed linux
> >> system - and I do sometimes have to run windows for work.
> >>
> >>
> > One question when you used the gui partitioning tool what did you say to
> > do with the partition mounted as /windows?
> 
> It's a vfat partition. I told the partitioning tool *NOT* to format it.
> I also said to mount it as /windows.
> 
Now I am really confused. There seems to be two people asking questions
and I guess I replied to the wrong one. I will have to rethink this
whole interchange.
--
=======================================================================
Do not count your chickens before they are hatched. -- Aesop
=======================================================================
Aaron Konstam telephone: (210) 656-0355 e-mail: akonstam at sbcglobal.net