Fedora 4 does not boot after sucessfull intall

akonstam at trinity.edu akonstam at trinity.edu
Tue Sep 20 21:06:19 UTC 2005


On Tue, Sep 20, 2005 at 12:25:12PM -0300, Gustavo Gouvea wrote:
> Hi everyone,
> 
> Im instaling a Fedora 4 on a PII 1000MHz, 256MB, Asus CUV4X-C, 80GB HD Maxtor (Latest Bios, and have tried all BIOS available).
> 
> The instalation goes fine, but on the first boot, I see the grub screen, hit any arrow. I see the boot list, hit enter, and the system hangs, and I only see this on the screen:
> 
> ---------
>  Booting 'Fedora core (2.6.11-1.1369_FC4)
> 
> root (hd0,0)
>   Filesystem type is ext2fs, partion type 0x83
> kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.11-1.1369_FC4 ro root=LABEL=/
>   [Linux-bzimage, setup=0x1e00, size=0x18e473]
> initrd /initrd-2.6.11-1.1369_FC4.img
>   [Linux-initrd @ 0xfedd000, 0x10e5eb bytes]
> 
> ---------
> 
> I think the next message would be "Umcompressing linux", but this never shows up.
> I have tried to edit the boot loader params, removing "quiet" and "rhgb", but the same happens.
> I tried a new install and choose the auto-partition option. So it used a LVM on the drive.
> 
> I am able to enter the rescue mode with "linux rescue", and than chroot /mnt/sysimage. But what can I do? Already tried "grub-instal /dev/hda"...
> 
> 
> Any ideias???
> I Apreciate any comments.
Well two things. I assume that in your /etc/fstab your root device is
designated as LABEL=/. Is that right?

Now normally I would expect the lines:
kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.11-1.1369_FC4 ro root=LABEL=/
   [Linux-bzimage, setup=0x1e00, size=0x18e473]
 initrd /initrd-2.6.11-1.1369_FC4.img

 to look like:
 kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.11-1.1369_FC4 ro root=LABEL=/
    [Linux-bzimage, setup=0x1e00, size=0x18e473]
 initrd /boot/initrd-2.6.11-1.1369_FC4.img
 
 unless /boot is on a separate partition. Is it a separate partition?

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Aaron Konstam
Computer Science
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