Description of problem: NOTE: Choice of kudzu above is just a wild guess, as this is a booting problem and kudzu is the only program on the list that runs at boot and that I've at least heard of. Fedora 8 does not boot up correctly after a fresh install, on a computer that both before and since has had no problem booting up Fedora 7. I first tried the Fedora-8-i386-DVD iso (3.2 GB) with a 12MB USB bootdisk.img file, and also the Fedora-8-KDE-i686 Live CD. Both seem to work as expected in installing everything, but I run into the same problem with both: the reboot afterward in either case stalls just before you would expect the "Welcome to Fedora" message. Machine specs: AthlonXP 2400+ with 512MB DDR-333 RAM (64MB shared) on an Abit VA-10 motherboard, VIA UniChrome KM400 onboard graphics chipset sda: Seagate 160GB ATA-100 HDD sda1 Windows XP SP2 (32GB) sda2 DesktopBSD 1.6rc3 (32GB) sda3 Fedora's /boot (196MB) sda4 extended partition, remainder of drive, filled with sda5 as LVM PV sdb: Western Digital 80GB ATA-100 HDD (unused by Linux) sdb1 32GB FAT32, my data "lifeboat"; remainder of HDD is free space This machine has worked well with both FC6 and F7. After repeated attempts to get F8 up and running, I reinstalled F7 from my KDE live CD and am typing this up within F7. Note that having DBSD in a triple-boot configuration with WinXP and Linux does not seem to trouble F7 at all, so I don't think the problem is there. When using the stock LVM configuration, I get the following boot screen: ************************************************************************ Booting 'Fedora (2.6.23.1-42.fc8)' root (hd0,2) Filesystem type is ext2fs , partition type 0x83 kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.23.1-42.fc8 ro root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 rhgb quiet [Linux-bzImage , setup=0x2c00, size=0x1e0320] initrd /initrd-2.6.23.1-42.fc8.img [Linux-initrd @ 0x1bc62000, 0x37d947 bytes] Uncompressing Linux... Ok, booting the kernel. ************************ [Long delay here, maybe 10 - 20 seconds.] Red Hat nash version 6.0.19 starting Reading all physical volumes. This may take a while... Found volume group "VolGroup00" using metadata type lvm2 2 logical volume(s) in volume group "VolGroup00" now active __ <--- blinking cursor. At this point it just hangs and won't go any further. After half an hour or so, the CRT powers off on its own, but I usually reboot before then. The message "Welcome to Fedora" never shows up (like it does in Fedora 7 and before). When I tried using ext3 partitions instead, to see if LVM was at fault, it was pretty much the same, apart from the hexadecimal numbers being different, and except that it would stop three lines sooner, immediately after the "nash 6.0.19" message above. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): Fedora 8 (both i386 DVD iso and i686 LiveCD. How reproducible: Every time. Steps to Reproduce: 1. Boot to either install method and run installer, following instructions and choosing options for typical multi-boot install. 2. Reboot and remove install media in the process. 3. Watch helplessly as machine hangs. Actual results: See above. Expected results: An awesome F8 install! Additional info: I've attached a text file, the output from dmesg while running the F8 i686 Live CD.
Created attachment 292215 [details] Output from dmesg while running the F8 Live CD on the same machine.
UPDATE: I ran sha1sum on the F8-KDE-LiveCD.iso file and confirmed that it matched the sha1sum on the Fedora mirror I downloaded it from. When I burned that LiveCD to disc, I used K3B's "verify data" option, so I already knew it was a good burn. I also successfully installed F8 on my old computer* using the same LiveCD that I used for the above abortive install. That computer boots just fine into and runs Fedora, despite being a much lower-spec system. There is one error when F8 boots on that PC, though. Right before the "Red Hat nash" comment, I see a message saying "Invalid PBLK length [5]". Like I wrote, it doesn't stop the boot process. * Machine specs for my old computer: HP Pavilion 6735-kr, with a P-III 850MHz (Upgraded by me from the stock Celeron CPU) on a TriGem Cognac motherboard with 384MB pc100 sdram and an Intel 82810 graphics/memory controller hub chipset. http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/product?product=59857&lc=en&cc=us&dlc=en&lang=en&cc=us
UPDATE: I have since then installed Fedora 9 via Live CD (both GNOME and KDE) on a flash drive using the Fedora livecd-tools package from within F7. F9 installs and runs successfully after reboot, but I've had repeated package-installation problems with PackageKit (MD5 checksums errors on /every/ package install attempted within F9!), so I eventually nuked F9 and tried F8 again. Same Live CD produces the same problem as before (LONG delays in loading/uncompressing kernel, stall right after "nash" comment). Note that the local mirror I used has an F8 KDE ISO ( http://mirror.anl.gov/pub/fedora/linux/releases/8/Live/i686/Fedora-8-Live-KDE-i686.iso ) which was last modified on 2007-11-02. Then finally SUCCESS! I KTorrented the F8 XFCE custom spin, dated 2008-02-12, from http://torrent.fedoraproject.org/torrents//Fedora-8-Live-XFCE-i686.torrent , and used the same livecd-tools package to put it on the same 1GB USB flash drive as I used before. It worked! The system rebooted successfully, and I'm now using XFCE to download and install the F8 KDE and assorted other packages. So the bug lies in one or more packages on the KDE live CD ISO and was corrected at some point before the building of the XFCE spin ISO. That ought to make it easier to spot!
... or I suppose the bug could be in package(s) in the KDE CD but not included in the XFCE CD, too.
I think I figured out where this problem is coming from, and that it really does have to do with installing F8 as a dual- or multi-boot system that already has some flavor of BSD installed on it. I tried to re-install F8 (both x86 and x86_64) on another homebuilt box of mine (an AMD64 Sempron) that had had no problems with F8 beforehand. F8 was a stand-alone OS on that box before, but this time I wanted to also try dual-booting PC-BSD 1.5.1 and F8 together for comparison. I found that suddenly F8 no longer worked but showed the same problem as above: it would start to boot but hang up right after the “nash” message. However, as before, I could install F7 or the F8 XFCE re-spin dated 2008-02-12 and either one worked fine. I also noticed something else with this particular system. After I installed it next to PC-BSD, F7 assigned a different label to its own “/” directory in grub's boot arguments, which shows “root=LABEL=/1 rhgb quiet”. Filesystem checks during boot also ID the root partition as "/1" instead of "/". Maybe the live CD installer program sees the BSD “/” partition and tries to avoid confusion between this and the Fedora “/” partition by assigning the “/1” custom label and/or making some other change, a change that F7 and the F8 XFCE re-spin handle well but not the initial release of F8 dated 2007-11-02? This other homebrew box has a 64-bit Sempron CPU, 2GB DDR2 SDRAM, an ECS GeForce motherboard (don't have the model name to refer to here), and NVidia graphics and media controller chips.
(In reply to comment #4) > ... or I suppose the bug could be in package(s) in the KDE CD but not included > in the XFCE CD, too. UPDATE ON THE ABOVE: With the XFCE respin on the above Soyo/Abit PC I mentioned on 2008-07-31, I was able to install, switch over to, and use KDE as my default desktop without problem.
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