freezing when startup
 

how come fedora freezes when the screen comes up that says "probing for new hardware". Everything freezes!!

Need more info.
Version of Fedora?
It installed fine?
What kind of details of the hardware you can provide.

Brian1

ok
fedora core 5 x86_64
it installed just fine but freezes.

amd athlon 64 3000 venice core
512 mb mem.
wd 250gb hdd ( im suspecting the hdd could be the prob)
ati radeon x700pro 128mb
400watt psu

IS it a sata drive?

Brian1

IS it a sata drive?

How long did you wait before rebooting? I would wait at least ten minutes to see if it boots.

Brian1

it is a sata drive and i did leave it for like 15 minutes and NOTHING!!

Not sure if FC5 is using kudzu anymore or not. Kudzu is one of the tools for autodetecting hardware changes on boot up. I would boot up in rescue mode and goto /etc/rc.d/rc3.d and rc4.d and rc5.d. In each directory rename S**kudzu to K95kudzu. This will stop kudzu from starting up.

You might be able to issue the commnad ' chkconfig --level 345 kudzu off '. Does the same as above but in a single commnad.

Reboot and if it still hangs look in /etc/modprobe.conf and rem out things like USB or Firewire. Put a # at the begginning of the line.

Brian1