Fedora 11 only boots once

[AdrianRiley]

I have upgraded to Fedora 11. All seemed fine, system booted up and everything worked as expected. But when I rebooted, the system failed to start. Removing the rhgb and quiet options from the kernel command, I see all the messages until the system hangs. Hit escape and I see this "Could not start boot splash: no such file or directory". After searching round, I found a suggestion to add a vga=... option to the kernel command. I didn't know the right value, but the system helpfully showed me all values and I selected 37d (1920x1200x32). With that option, the system booted up again just fine. But again, when I closed down and rebooted, the system failed to start in exactly the same way as before. I've tried any number of different options, but the system steadfastly refuses to boot.

Any help would be appreciated.

Incidentally, the system boots fine from a Live CD (although I've only tried that once as yet, since it takes about 1/2 an hour)

[sonoran]

Adding something (vga=) at the grub interface is not persistent, you have to manually edit the /boot/grub/grub.conf file to make the change permanent.

[AdrianRiley]

Yes thanks, I realize that. I edited the config file to start with, then when the next reboot failed, I tried editing the command on the fly at each subsequent reboot with a few dozen different combinations of options, none of which helped, and entered the whole boot command set a few dozen more times. I'm sure I entered exactly the same commands that worked once, but that didn't work the next time.

[sonoran]

Can you determine from the boot messages just where it is hanging? Or does it get through and then just give you a black screen?

Maybe if you posted your hardware specs someone would spot something, and your grub.conf file.

Just a longshot - I'm the only person in fedoraland who seems to suffer from this bug - do you have anything plugged into a usb port when you boot? My system resolutely refuses to boot if I do.

[AdrianRiley]

The problem seemed to be caused by running grub-install. That seemed to cause the problem somehow, not sure how. Eventually I did a new install from the Live CD and all seems fine now.