From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.1) Gecko/20040707 Description of problem: Hi there. I have just installed Fedora Core 2. The first time, the bootloader flooded my BIOS with "GRUB GRUB GRUB GRUB GRUB GRUB GRUB" until I simply turned off the PC. I then considered reinstalling Fedora or Mandrake. I went with Fedora before Mandrake, and it appeared to work fine. When I select Fedora Core 2 on the GRUB menu, I get a load of lines come up, and then something along the lines of.. "Unpacking Linux... 0k.. boot loading kernel" I can't remember the exact message. I've heard of problems of this during the installer program, however I considered it would be better to post it as another message, as this isn't the installer. Windows XP loads fine through GRUB. I only get this with Fedora Core 2. Here are my basic computer specs: AMD Athlon XP 2600+ running at 2.13GHZ 256mb RAM 4 USB I'm not sure about my motherboard, but I've found something in my Windows device manager called "ACPI Uniprocessor PC". I can't appear to find anything that might be a motherboard, apart from this, as everything eventually roots to it as its location, and this is unknown. I'd really like to get Fedora Core 2 working, as I've heard VERY good things about it, and I've had problems with MandrakeLinux. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Turn on computer 2. Wait for GRUB to load 3. Select Fedora Core 2 4. Message appears Actual Results: Appears to have frozen. Expected Results: Fedora Core 2 to have loaded Additional info:
I tried again, and noted everything on my screen down. Booting `Fedora Core (2.6.5-1.358)` root (hd0, 4) File system type is ext2fs, partition type 0x83 kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.5-1.358 ro root=LABEL=/ rhgb quiet [Linux-bzImage, setup=0x1400, size=0x123567] initrd /boot/initrd-2.6.5-1.358.img [Linux-initrd @ 0xdfb1000, 0x2ef58 bytes] Uncompressing Linux... Ok, booting the kernel. audit(1093549170.624:0): initialized That is everything that appears, and then it appears to be frozen. I tried leaving it for 10 minutes and nothing happened still.
Sorry for any inconvenience caused to you. I have appeared to fix this by adding acpi=off to the bootline. However it doesn't appear to recognise my graphics card now that I'm in. So off I go to find some drivers for it. o_o