FC2 will not boot

[BeanDip]

I have tried this two ways. First I have tried installing a fresh FC2 and then I installed FC1 which worked fine and upgraded it.

Here is what I get:

Booting 'Fedora Core (2.6.5-1.358)'

root (hd0,0)
Filesystem type is ext2fs, partition type 0x83
kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.5-1.358 ro root=LABEL=/ rhgb
[Linux-bzImage, setup=0x1400, size=0x1235b7]
initrd /initrd-2.6.5-1.358.img
[Linux-initrd @ 0x17fc200, 0x2dcf2 bytes]

(cursor blinking)

At this point nothing happens. I have tried using hde=noprobe and hdg=noprobe along with leaving off the rhgb parameter with no change.

The board is an Abit BH6 with a PIII-500 which has been termed "old faithful" because it has done just about everything I have thrown at it. It has IDE HD and DVD-ROM on different channels.

I used the CDs for the upgrade from FC1 to FC2. I made a ghost backup of the working FC1 so I can try just about any suggestion.

Thanks

[BeanDip]

Well I am not sure how long it took but I just came in and had a message about being unable to start the XServer.

If I say to config it says:

(EE) NVIDIA(0): Failed to initialize the NVIDIA kernel module

At lease I am at a root prompt now.

I rebooted to see if the same pause happens and it hangs at that same time for around 20 minutes before uncompressing kernel.

Now that I am logged in I am doing a 'yum upgrade' do see if that does anything for me on the boot issue (reading the forums it appears that the NVidia drivers is a whole other problem).

[pawel_321]

I have same problem as you had. How have you solved it?

My boot sequence is:

Booting command-list

root (hd0,1)
Filesystem type is ext2fs, partition type 0x83
kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.5-1.358 ro root=LABEL=/ rhgb
[Linux-bzImage, setup=0x1400, size=0x1235b7]
initrd /initrd-2.6.5-1.358.img
[Linux-initrd @ 0x17fb100, 0x2e2d0 bytes]

(cursor blinking)

could you help me?

[BeanDip]

I have not solved it yet. After it finally uncompressed and I was able to log into the console I started the yum upgrade and went to bed.

When I get home from work I will see if that had any effect and post back.

[BeanDip]

OMG! I figured out what is happening.

I tried to time the hang so I left it there for an hour. I decided to take a break and turned the monitor off. As soon as I turned it off I heard HD activity so I turned it on and it was booting.

So I rebooted let it get to the spot where it hangs and turned off the monitor for a couple of seconds and turned it back on and it was booting up into the kernel.

So apparently the NVidia is causing this? Pawel_321 do you have an NVidia card? Try turning off the monitor and see if you get the same results.

At least I can troubleshoot this without having to wait 20 minutes between reboots.

[BeanDip]

This is just the strangest thing... I got my NVidia driver working using this thread
I downloaded the RPM mentioned there and did an rpm -U

Rebooted into the new kernel and did a "sh NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-5336-pkg1.run" and reinstalled the drivers

After which I booted into Gnome and received
Error activating XKB configuration.
Probably internal X server problem.

X server version data:
The X.Org Foundation
60700000

I fixed by using the method here



But I still have to turn off my monitor to boot into the kernel. I will keep researching it. I will try another monitor and see if I get the same results.

[pawel_321]

Yes, I do have nVidia.
Thanks BeanDip for advice I will tray to switch of monitor.
P.

[BeanDip]

Just an update for anyone else who is having this problem. I have been living with having to turn the monitor off to boot for several months.

I recently bought a two-port KVM to share the KVM with my 2003 server and when the Fedora box is plugged into the KVM, it boots fine.