Re: Boot hangs after fresh install

[Dave Jones <davej redhat com>]

On Sat, Jan 01, 2005 at 02:50:42PM -0500, Ned Voorhees wrote:
 > Below are the messages shown on the screen at boot time:
 > --- snip ---
 > Booting 'Fedora Core (2.6.9-1.667)'
 > root (hd0,0)
 > Filesystem type is ext2fs, partition type 0x83
 > kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.9-1.667 ro root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 rhgb quiet
 >   [Linux-bzImage, setup=0z1400, size=0x155da5]
 > initrd /initrd-2.6.9-1.667.img
 >   [Linux-initrd 0x7ef3000, 0xecfed bytes]
 > --- snip ---
 > 
 > The above is all that is shown on the screen when the boot process
 > hangs.  If anyone has any suggestions on what I might want to do or
 > check, I would very much appreciate it.

When you get to the bootloader screen, if you press 'e' you
can edit the command line, and remove 'quiet' from it.
You'll then see all the kernel messages, and see exactly where
it hangs.

		Dave (hating 'quiet' more and more each day)