From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1) Description of problem: Compaq 1850r - install works fine with the "text nousb" but locks on post-install boot at "hda: attached ide-cdrom drive". Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Install Fedora on Compaq Proliant 1850r 2.Reboot 3.Experience hang Additional info:
Just experienced the same situation on a Fedora 1 install on a Compaq 850R. Booted from a rescue CD and saw that boot.log had a line reading "firstboot: Failed to open connection to a session manager, so window positions will not be saved: SESSION_MANAGER environment variable not defined" Prompted me to recall that graphical install was successful, but looked "problematic" (refreshes were awkward, slow)...I changed /etc/inittab to default to runlevel 3 as oppsed to 5 and the next bootup was successful. Upon successful boot, the above message: "hda: attached ide-cdrom driver" is displayed along side a smartd init failure... Incase that's relevant.
Same problem here. System is an Athlon XP 1800+, 256megs of mem, 160 gig HD, ac97 sound, ATI Rage 128 Pro video card. During Firstboot, the system froze, and I had to hit the reset button. On reboot, the system got stuck at "hda: attached ide-cdrom driver". I booted from a rescue cd, and checked the boot.log file, and had the same "firstboot: Failed to open connection to a session manager, so window positions will not be saved: SESSION_MANAGER environment variable not defined" error. Changed my runlevel to 3, and rebooted. Now the system freezes right after "Enabling swap space: [ OK ]".
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