Hi everyone. I´ve been browsing through forums and the internet in general in search for an answer (or even a cause!) to a problem I´m having with Fedora

Core 1. I´ve seen the same problem happening to various users but still there isn´t a real solution to the problem.
Another user having the same problem: linuxquestions.org/questions/history/140699

Computer:
- AMD Athlon 700Mhz
- 400mb RAM
- GeForce 4 MX440
- Maxtor 30gb HD
- Epox motherboard with via chipset
- Sound Blaster Audigy
- Standard NIC
- 2 cd drivers (burner, cdrom)
- Standard 1.44" floppy

Installation:
I partition my drive using partition magic 8.0 from Windows XP, splitting the space in 15gb for each OS. I downloaded the iso's and checked the MD5 sums

before burning at 24x. I also used the media check from the Fedora installer.
At the installation, I choose not to have a separate partition for my swap file because the partition manager (druid or so...) made some really

bizarre partitions and it was gonna be a mess.
The installation itself proceeded nicely (I chose custom install) and I didn´t get any package error's. After the final reboot came the problem. Also I chose

to make a boot disk.

Problem (part 1 - solved)
After rebooting, I got the GRUB screen and chose fedora as the booting system. The checks started executing and were ok until it came to the firewire check.
Load firewire (ohci1394) [OK] (the line is a bit different, but you get the idea )
then the system hanged and stayed there until you manually reset it or shutdown.

Solution to part 1:
Boot the system using the rescue mode from the cd or the diskette (use: linux single nofirewire). You'll end up in a command line. There, go to the directory

usr, etc or boot (can´t remember which) and look for a grub.config file. Use any editor you want (for example: vi grub.config). In there will be a line:
kernel /dev/boot......
in that line add: nofirewire, so it ends like
kernel /dev/boot..... ro nofirewire root....
This fix should stop the firewire hardware checking so you can boot without that problem.

Problem (part 2 - unsolved???)
Ok... so I added the line and stopped the firewire hang problem, but now the system hangs after the "Enabling swap [OK]". Same kind of halt, that you have to

manually reset the system. To this point I'm really lost as to what is the problem because some of the "solutions" are refering to ATI drivers and that

clearly is not the problem in my system.
So far I can only boot with the diskette using the "linux single nofirewire" parameters. There I can switch to the root user (type "su" at the command line)

and try to enter X, but it says something about not being able to load a "fixed font" or something like that.
One problem I also see is that you´re supposed to get some configuration screens after that "first" reboot (fedora installations screens) but I don´t know if

they´ll be accessible now.

Bottom Line: does anyone have an idea of what is going on? My guess is the runlevel5 is crashing and the problem is with the X server. Has anyone actually

got around this problem? A LOT of thanks in advance.

Update:
After switching my starting running level from 5->3 (in /etc/inittab change the value) I get to the console, but that's it. I still can´t start X

I'm looking for a fix for the same sort of problem. System hangs when going into run-level 5. I got it to run-level 3 and was able to run "init 5" to bring up gui, but once I changed /etc/inittab to default to init 5, the system won't boot to gui. Thought it was ATI driver, but I changed to vesa driver and had the same problem.
Sorry I don't have a solution for you. I'm hoping to find a solution through one of the many threads on this problem.

this wont solve anything, but sometimes it just hangs, if you control-alt-delete it will reboot and be fine.

it is much better to boot into level 3 and run 'startx' -=] but then again you may not.

I've been troubling with the same problem for the last couple of days. I'm fairly new to Linux so it was a bit trial and error but I got something working in the end:

First tried disabling the "Enable Swap Space" command. Didn't freeze after booting up but still wouldn't load X. Edited /etc/inittab to use default of runlevel 3 and booted fine all the time. Not what I want though.

Second, installed a fresh Fedora installation but after selecting to "Auto Partition" my drive I removed the partition for Swap. Leaving /boot on hda1, and / on hda2. After installation Fedora booted fine and the Fedora config pages loaded (in X) and away I went.

I'm running a fairly old machine Pentium 3 450MHz, 490Mb RAM with an 8Gb HDD and nVidia TNT2 VGA card. Hopefully I'll have enough RAM so that the swap space isn't required anyway.

Hope this provides some help?