PC not booting

[Muhammad Ahmad]

Thank you all for the advice.  I hope this message is in text mode as that 
is the setting now.

It turned out that Xwindows was having problems with the depth for the VGA 
card.

It is all fixed and working.

Thanks again for the help

Muhammad
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Paul Howarth" <paul at city-fan.org>
To: "For users of Fedora Core releases" <fedora-list at redhat.com>
Sent: Thursday, February 10, 2005 3:13 AM
Subject: Re: PC not booting


> On Wed, 2005-02-09 at 22:20 -0500, Muhammad Ahmad wrote:
>> I have a Pentium II system with 384 MB of RAM.  6G Hard Drive.  I
>> installed core 3 and everything went smoothly.  Then the system tries
>> to boot and fails.  It gives me a message like:
>> acpi date of bios (1998) does not pass cut-off (2001), acpi = force
>> must be used to start ACPI services
>>
>> Then the kernel starts to load and after initializing storage network
>> sound I get this message and a blinking cursor
>> kernel parameters:
>>
>> The system does not do anything after that.  It just stays there.
>>
>> The PC is a Micron Millenia.
>>
>> Any ideas would be appreciated.
>
> When the machine boots, press whatever key it is you need to get into
> the grub menu (I can't remember what it is offhand). Then press "e" to
> edit the default grub boot command. Remove "rhgb" and "quiet" from the
> command (if present) and add "nofb" and "3" as additional parameters.
> Then press return to try booting again. Does it get any further?
>
> Paul.
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