Can not boot Fedora 10 after moving disk to another computer

[Paulo Cavalcanti]

On Sat, Dec 6, 2008 at 4:59 PM, Antonio Olivares <olivares14031 at yahoo.com>wrote:

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> --- On Sat, 12/6/08, Paulo Cavalcanti <promac at gmail.com> wrote:
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> > From: Paulo Cavalcanti <promac at gmail.com>
> > Subject: Can not boot Fedora 10 after moving disk to another computer
> > To: "Community assistance, encouragement, and advice for using Fedora." <
> fedora-list at redhat.com>
> > Date: Saturday, December 6, 2008, 10:53 AM
> > Hi,
> >
> > I have made a clean install of Fedora 10 two days ago.
> >
> > Today, I moved the disk to a brand new computer
> > with an Intel DG45ID mobo,  an Intel onboard video (the
> > previous computer
> > had a nividia card).
> >
> > The boot goes fine until the point where it starts anacron,
> > and then stops
> > forever.
> >
> > The last services started were, NMB, atd, avahi, cups,
> > anacron.
> >
> > I can boot this computer with a Fedora 10 on a USB stick,
> > and access the
> > hard disk,
> > but it always stops after stating anacron, when I try to
> > boot using the hard
> > disk.
> >
> > Does anyone have any clue about what is happening here?
> >
> > Thanks.
> >
> >
> > --
> > Paulo Roma Cavalcanti
> > LCG - UFRJ
> > --
>
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> Don't have a clue about what is going on, but you can take several steps to
> see if you can fix this.
>
> 1) boot into level 1 and enable/disable the services,
> or 1a) boot with selinux disabled(temporarily) using
> enforcing=0 option, might be selinux getting in the way and preventing some
> services from starting.
> 2) boot into rescue mode from Fedora install DVD/CDs and then chmod
> /mnt/sysimage and run yum update from there and maybe a yum update can fix
> it,
> 3) boot the install DVD and chose upgrade option and maybe that will take
> care of the problem
>
> Try one of those, whichever seems easier to do and report back.
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Hi, fortunately, I could login from another computer.
What happened is that I had created an xorg.conf for my nvidia
card. For the first time ever, this xorg.conf has not been altered
due to a card replacement.

Anyway, I just deleted it, rebooted, and I could login.
However, I had also activated compiz, previously.

And guess what. My desktop appears correctly for a few seconds,
then it blinks and comes back upside down, with all the text from the menus
kind of "back to front".

I am seriously thinking of giving up of the Intel onboard card and plugging
another nvidia card.

Thanks anyway.

-- 
Paulo Roma Cavalcanti
LCG - UFRJ
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