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Hello all,
I recently went about reinstalling my fedora core 6. Now the computer seems to hang at the same spot when booting. It gets as far as yum-updatesd. At this point it just sits there. The progress spinner stops moving. I have tried going in with the rescue disk and turning off the yum-updatesd, but then it just hangs on Hal daemon. Also I have tried adding
Code:
acpi=off mode=vesa
to the boot line in grub, but the same thing happens. Any ideas?
Distribution: Slackware, Gentoo's and Funtoo's, Roll your Own (LFS, not doobies)
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do you have hotplugging enabled?
im not for certain but this might cause some problems sort of like what you describe...if so try passing the nohotplug option to the kernel at boot. worst comes to worst you could try reinstalling
im not for certain but this might cause some problems sort of like what you describe...if so try passing the nohotplug option to the kernel at boot. worst comes to worst you could try reinstalling
I have tried reinstalling several times now. Also I tried passing it nohotplug but same thing.
Distribution: Slackware, Gentoo's and Funtoo's, Roll your Own (LFS, not doobies)
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this one goes a bit beyond my knowledge. maybe it could be bad IDE cables from your drive, my mandriva wouldnt boot for a while and then finally i changed the cable and it worked again. im sure someone will be able to give you a good answer.
So have you been experiencing this slowness from the start? I see you reinstalled but that doesn't tell us whether you had actually been using it before.
Anyway, I had similar issues when I first installed FC6: slowness, hanging (especially on CUPS, sendmail, HP stuff, ...), complaints about cpufreq, the internet connection getting lost from time to time; all of that was solved after doing the first update.
Sorry I had forgotten to mention this. It was working on previous installs. There is no slowness until it gets to the point where it hangs there. But since I reinstalled it, I have been having this problem.
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but this might cause some problems sort of like what you describe...if so try passing the nohotplug option to the kernel at boot. worst comes to worst you could try reinstalling 
maybe it could be bad IDE cables from your drive, my mandriva wouldnt boot for a while and then finally i changed the cable and it worked again. im sure someone will be able to give you a good answer.
