Hello Friends,
I use Fedora core 7 in my laptop. I am getting a pecuiliar problem. The problem is that when I choose fedora from grub menu, sometimes my machine does not boot. It just hangs. It has no problem for other distros which are installed in my machine. When I had fedora core 6 I never faced this problem.
I am confused. Is it any issue with acpi? If it's a hardware problem then it should happen with all the other distros. Can anybody help me out of this problem?
Thanks in advance.
Regards, Debasish
On Dec 6, 2007 12:22 AM, Debasish Das debit2005@gmail.com wrote:
I use Fedora core 7 in my laptop. I am getting a pecuiliar problem. The problem is that when I choose fedora from grub menu, sometimes my machine does not boot. It just hangs.
On what screen does it hang?
Does it hang at the grub screen, or does it hang at the [OK] / [FAILED] screen?
Regards, NMK.
On 12/6/07, Nadeem M. Khan nadeem.m.khan@gmail.com wrote:
On Dec 6, 2007 12:22 AM, Debasish Das debit2005@gmail.com wrote:
I use Fedora core 7 in my laptop. I am getting a pecuiliar problem. The problem is that when I choose fedora from grub menu, sometimes my machine does not boot. It just hangs.
On what screen does it hang?
Does it hang at the grub screen, or does it hang at the [OK] / [FAILED] screen?
After choosing the fedora kernel from grub screen when I press enter key , it just hangs.
Regards, NMK. -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
On Dec 10, 2007 9:23 AM, Debasish Das debit2005@gmail.com wrote:
On 12/6/07, Nadeem M. Khan nadeem.m.khan@gmail.com wrote:
On Dec 6, 2007 12:22 AM, Debasish Das debit2005@gmail.com wrote:
I use Fedora core 7 in my laptop. I am getting a pecuiliar problem. The problem is that when I choose fedora from grub menu, sometimes my machine does not boot. It just hangs.
On what screen does it hang?
Does it hang at the grub screen, or does it hang at the [OK] / [FAILED] screen?
After choosing the fedora kernel from grub screen when I press enter key
, it just hangs.
Hangs as in there's no display on the screen? It maybe a graphics problem. Try removing the vga=xxx lines from your grub.conf. You can edit grub by pressing the 'e' key when grub loads. You can find vga=xxx (if it exists) in the kernel line.
Also, do you see any activity on your hard-disk? You can find this out by checking the Hard disk LED which usually blinks every now and then the Hard disk is accessed.
Regards, Amit.
On 12/12/07, Amit Joshi mckagan@gmail.com wrote:
On Dec 10, 2007 9:23 AM, Debasish Das debit2005@gmail.com wrote:
On 12/6/07, Nadeem M. Khan nadeem.m.khan@gmail.com wrote:
On Dec 6, 2007 12:22 AM, Debasish Das debit2005@gmail.com wrote:
I use Fedora core 7 in my laptop. I am getting a pecuiliar problem. The problem is that when I choose fedora from grub menu, sometimes my machine does not boot. It just hangs.
On what screen does it hang?
Does it hang at the grub screen, or does it hang at the [OK] / [FAILED] screen?
After choosing the fedora kernel from grub screen when I press enter key
, it just hangs.
Hangs as in there's no display on the screen? It maybe a graphics problem. Try removing the vga=xxx lines from your grub.conf. You can edit grub by pressing the 'e' key when grub loads. You can find vga=xxx (if it exists) in the kernel line.
But it does not happen all the times. If the problem is with vga then it should never boot. Though I will try what you have suggested.
Also, do you see any activity on your hard-disk? You can find this out by checking the Hard disk LED which usually blinks every now and then the Hard disk is accessed.
I will check it once again.
Regards, Amit. -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
On Dec 13, 2007 11:47 AM, Debasish Das debit2005@gmail.com wrote:
On 12/12/07, Amit Joshi mckagan@gmail.com wrote:
On Dec 10, 2007 9:23 AM, Debasish Das debit2005@gmail.com wrote:
On 12/6/07, Nadeem M. Khan nadeem.m.khan@gmail.com wrote:
On Dec 6, 2007 12:22 AM, Debasish Das debit2005@gmail.com wrote:
I use Fedora core 7 in my laptop. I am getting a pecuiliar
problem.
The problem is that when I choose fedora from grub menu, sometimes
my
machine does not boot. It just hangs.
Yes. I guess that I overlooked the "sometimes" part. ;) I remember long ago, I had a problem with acpi on Slackware 10.1. But the problem was not related to booting. The machine won't shutdown automatically. Regards, Amit.
On what screen does it hang?
Does it hang at the grub screen, or does it hang at the [OK] /
[FAILED]
screen?
After choosing the fedora kernel from grub screen when I press enter
key
, it just hangs.
Hangs as in there's no display on the screen? It maybe a graphics
problem.
Try removing the vga=xxx lines from your grub.conf. You can edit grub by pressing the 'e' key when grub loads. You can find vga=xxx (if it
exists) in
the kernel line.
But it does not happen all the times. If the problem is with vga then
it should never boot. Though I will try what you have suggested.
Also, do you see any activity on your hard-disk? You can find this out
by
checking the Hard disk LED which usually blinks every now and then the
Hard
disk is accessed.
I will check it once again.
Regards, Amit. -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
Amit Joshi wrote:
On Dec 13, 2007 11:47 AM, Debasish Das debit2005@gmail.com wrote:
Also, do you see any activity on your hard-disk? You can find this out
by
checking the Hard disk LED which usually blinks every now and then the
Hard
disk is accessed.
I will check it once again.
Most probably, your installation is corrupted or file system shaky. I cannot recollect properly but RedHat/ Fedora CDs have repair utilities when booted over an existing installation. From your other distros, try doing an fsck and then mount the suspect partition and copy paste a fresh kernel and or image file from the CD over the existing ones.
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