Fedora 7 not booting after install

[Kam Leo]

On 8/4/07, Sam Varshavchik <mrsam at courier-mta.com> wrote:
> Dotan Cohen writes:
>
> > On 04/08/07, Dotan Cohen <dotancohen at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> On 04/08/07, Andy Green <andy at warmcat.com> wrote:
> >> > Somebody in the thread at some point said:
> >> >
> >> > >> The first step is to press Enter at the GRUB prompt, then edit the kernel
> >> > >> boot command to remove the "quiet" parameter.
> >> >
> >> > > Simple Boot Flag at 0x79 set to 0x1
> >> > > apm: BIOS not found.
> >> > > audit: initializing netlink socket (disabled)
> >> >
> >> > Gah sounds bad.  At the GRUB boot prompt, hit 'A'... what are the kernel
> >> > parameters you already had set there?
> >> >
> >> > If it says something like acpi=off try deleting it.
> >> >
> >>
> >> grub append> ro root=LABEL=/ rhgb quiet
> >>
> >
> > Googling the problem led me to retry "acpi=off" after "quiet" on the
> > grub options line. I was adding it to the last line, and it wasn't
> > helping.
> >
> > With ACPI disabled, how could I suspend this laptop?
>
> Well, if you can't even boot, suspend is the last of your problems.

First thing to do is delete "rhgb quiet" from the grub boot line. I
recommend that you leave those two parameters off until you get a
stable system or just leave them off all together.