Fedora 12 will not load

[Michael Schwendt]

On Sun, 06 Dec 2009 13:41:10 +0100, Joachim wrote:

> On 12/06/2009 11:45 AM, Michael Schwendt wrote:
> > On Sun, 6 Dec 2009 07:16:05 +0100, Gunnar wrote:
> >
> >>    My system works up to the point when the sky-blue screen appears with
> >>    the dark grey blob in the middle. Then nothing more happens.
> >
> > First thing you could try during a reboot is to hit a key early to make
> > the GRUB boot loader menu appear, then edit the boot entry's kernel
> > line and boot with a removed "rhgb" option. Where does that end?
> >
> 
> Pressing ESC during graphical boot screen is faster than editing the 
> grub line.

It doesn't achieve the same thing, though. Removing rhgb would boot
without Plymouth.  In case something locks up during boot, the next thing
to try would be to add "nomodeset" and remove option "quiet".