I just finished upgrading a recently-hosed FC2 installation to FC3. However, on boot, it hangs on "congifuring kernal parameters". I can ^c and get a login prompt, but it can't start X. once I log on and attempt to $ startx, it complains about not being able to create "/etc/somewhere/tmp/somefile: [b]read-only filesystem[b]". I'm guessing that this is bad. Also, when I $ reboot, it goes into what seems to be an infinte loop and prints out some error. WTF is going on?

Other info:

/mnt/ contains no reference to hd
/etc/fstab doesn't have anything interesing.

hi there

before going for startx

make sure u r root

u can come to status by

su

regards

"read only file system" usually means just that. In the early stages of booting the root file system is mounted read-only, later it should be remounted read/write.

As root try:

mount -u /

Hope this helps

Michael

Well, I did a clean install. Fixed the problem (not really):

I got it to boot and have been able to work in FC3, installing software and whatnot. I just installed the nvidia drivers, rebooted, and it worked. I then changed graphics card "vendor" in xorg.conf to "nvidia". Reboot, and it's hosed again. Same error, but with a twist: I can't bring up a login prompt. It stops trying to configure kernal parameters, tries x11, doesn't work (like last time), so it runs some other stuff, and then hangs.

hi there

after u changed the " then changed graphics card "vendor" in xorg.conf to "nvidia""

it is not working right?

can u post the older and newer xorg.conf here


regards

I had the same problem - and found this: (ThankU stomp10)
PS: you can just edit the boot parameters directly when halting the boot process during the 3 second grace period!!
Lasse


Ha I got it to work and start up the os. Booted from the install disk 1 and selected the edit command line option ('Scuse if my terminology is a bit off

- Still a Newb) removed the last bit of the line that said something like "rgbh quiet" (minus the quotes) saved it and rebooted without the disk - it

went right to a login screen and bypassed the startup wizard. After another reboot the startup wizard came up and I was able to create a user account. A

bit quirky but it did the job for me.... This fixed the hanging at Configuring kernel paramet1ers thing

The problem was that GRUB was (in "Kernal arguments") telling the kernal to mount root/ as -ro. Configuring the boot parameters in Grub didn't do anything, i.e. it did not actually _make_ any changes o Grub's config. I booted in Rescue mode and changed the apropriate line in grub.conf and everything works like a dream ^_^