Fedora 5 reset/restart problem

linuxpp · 09-24-2006, 07:50 PM

Anyone got idea why my newly installed Fedora 5 does not boot? After GRUB it starts to boot until it gets to the line "Booting the kernel" then reset/restarts the computer and the process is repeated until stopped manually.

I have Intel PIII computer where I did not have any problem using RH9. I have used RH9 on PII and PIII computers with no problem.

ekdya · 09-24-2006, 08:58 PM

I just installed 32bit-FC5 from dvd on PIII and grub without any problems. any more info you can provide on your system,i.e
what OSs are there, did you have a dual boot before, ...etc

linuxpp · 09-24-2006, 10:06 PM

Thanks for your reply Ekdya

I have w98 and xp together with fedora5. All three OSs was freshly installed. Booting was ok with 98 and xp before installing fedora5. And still they work fine if I choose them on GRUB start.

The same machine did not give me any problem when I had win98,xp and RH9 before.

decrepit · 09-26-2006, 06:33 AM

It's odd, normally if there's a problem booting the kernel, it gives you an error message, doesn't reset and start again.
So you get no message after "booting the kernel"???

linuxpp · 09-27-2006, 09:43 PM

No message at all. Just resets and restart the machine.

Now I have installed latest Ubuntu linux in the same partition..it is working fine. I just need an answer why not Fedora 5 when RH9 and Ubuntu are fine there in the same place.