Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 133849
Grub works fine, the problem is FC2 hangs after initializing the swap.
Last modified: 2015-01-04 17:10:02 EST
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7.2) Gecko/20040804 Netscape/7.2 (ax) Description of problem: I installed FC2 on my AMD900 system. I installed it using the custom option, and once completed, rebooted the system. Grub came up, I selected "Fedora Core 2" to boot, and the boot process began. The kernel loaded, the Press "I" for Interactive Setup message appeared, and then the mounting of the file system was started, and completed. However, whatever the step is that occurrs after the mounting of the Swap partition hangs. It just stops cold, no error message, nothing at all. The first time I tried to boot the system, my screen blanked completely, the second time I pressed 'I', and I was able to see the last item that the system was able to successfully complete. I installed Fedora using the graphical interface, and auto-partitioning(though I did double-check the partitions before allowing continuation of the install). Fedora was installed on /hdb1. A Quantum 18 GB hdd that is solely used by Fedora. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Boot the system 2. 3. Actual Results: Nothing Expected Results: Command line should have appeared...eventually Additional info:
Has anything been figured out on this apparent bug yet? It's been quite some time, and I would like to run Linux, but it is kind of hard when the system won't boot...
I have this same problem with installing fc2 on a compaq proliant 800 Dual SCSI 4.3GB drives 384MB RAM CDROM fc2 install runs great, but on reboot after install and every consecutive reboot afterwards, the boot hangs at Enabling Swapspace. The last message I see is: hda: attached ide-cdrom driver I have a feeling that there is a problem with the fact that the CDROM is the only thing on the IDE channel and fc2 is installed on the SCSI drives as the default boot files are usually located on hda? Can anyone help? Thanks. I will post if I figure out how to fix this...
Harald, I found out the problem with my installation, and since you seemed to have the same scenario, you may want to try this as well. Boot from the first CD again and enter: linux rescue After it finds your operating system and gives you the command prompt enter: chroot /mnt/sysimage Then enter: vi (or nano) /etc/X11/xorg.conf This should open up your x window configuration settings. Go down to the video settings and compare them with your chipset on you video board. If they do not match, then try changing the values. Worst case scenario, change the video driver to "vesa" (default driver) and you should be able to get x windows started and then can mess around with the settings later. Let me know if this works for you, cheers. -Darren
I'll try that in the next day or so. I've got meetings tomorrow, so hopefully I'll have a chance to play with it on Thursday. Thanks.
Fedora Core 2 has now reached end of life, and no further updates will be provided by Red Hat. The Fedora legacy project will be producing further kernel updates for security problems only. If this bug has not been fixed in the latest Fedora Core 2 update kernel, please try to reproduce it under Fedora Core 3, and reopen if necessary, changing the product version accordingly. Thank you.