Hello,
I've installed Fedora Core 3, and the install process goes just fine. However, while booting, it gets to "Starting sshd" and hangs, then completely freezes (I have to do a cold shutdown).

The mobo is an ASUS P4S800, and I have 512 megs of RAM and a PCI 3Com NIC card. I had thought this might be an issue since I turned of the ethernet adapter that was on the motherboard, but I've tried re-installing it with the second adapter enabled and it does the same thing. Is there some way I can skip loading sshd (is that secure shell daemon?) during boot?

hmm...I haven't installed Fedora (yet, I will do it in a few weeks I think, to a friend of mine) but at least the good (?) old RedHat had "interactive startup"; you could press I while booting, and RH asked you which services you wanted to load and which not. I'm not sure if Fedora asks for that too...put the installation-cd in and see the resque-thing, if it would help.

I have the same problem. My boot would stop at CUPS daemon.
I wasn't using it, so I booted into run-level 3( single users) and did a RPM -e --nodeps cups. But, when reboot now, it stops at HTTPD.

I need Apache to run.

I have a feeling it is either the kernel 2.6.9.x or a bad DNS setup on the NIC.

Anyone know what's going on here?

Vince

having similar problems i think... pc freezes dead on startup....

installed fedora... nps
installed driverloader... nps
updated fedora... nps
reboot into wondoze to grab some backups...
reboot into fedora...boot hangs on 'setting hostname'

I wish I had time to compile Gentoo on this machine...

don't have any suggestions beyond the rescue installation item that has been mentioned above.

seems to me like fc3 has been released as buggy as the last free redhat-distributions like 9.0 have been.
i've heard and experienced lots of installation problems from these rh9 and fc1 distros, but at least fc2 seemed to be better. give me hope, joanna...

casually, fc3 runs fine with my hardware

solved the problem, scrapped the redhat graphical loader

(remove rhgb from grub kernel line)

There is a problem with SMP kernel not solved yet. Just boot without SMP.

I had the same problem with my ASUS P4S800 ACPI motherboard.
What i did was
a)to boot and login to the non smp kernel and
b) to disable the `irqbalance' service:
(by typing as root)

#/sbin/chkconfig irqbalance off

Then i rebooted using the smp kernel and the problem was solved.