I have installed fc3. On the first run just after “configuring kernel parameters” system got stuck


starting undev: [ok]
initializing hardware... storage network audio done [ok]
configuring kernel parameters:

I'm going out on a limb with this one, but can you change the runlevel to 1 in your grub.conf before it boots.

PS: if you had any more information, it would really help

I'm having the same problem.

What other information do you need?

Did you try changing the runlevel Woessey or is that what you are asking how to do?

I have the same error thanks to my 'efforts' last night!

Hansi, Woessey - Did the you add anything new like I did, or did it just happen on the first boot after the install?

My story.. I have been running FC3 for a few weeks (far from perfectly) and then yesterday decided to try to get it working better. Obviously, I made a mistake somewhere!

This is what I did -
1. Install the ATI Rage 200 driver (8.14.13) for X.Org 6.8, and run flxrconfig utility for said driver.
2. Install yum updates to the following packages (the ones I can remember)
- alsa-utils
- alsa-lib
- up2date
..that's all I can remember. There was also a couple of the more general libraries, but I'm at work now, not home and don't have notes here.

Interestingly, I can hit Ctrl-C when the systems appears to stop at "configuring kernel parameters" and it enters runlevel 5. From there, the boot continues (or tries to) but can't 'touch' a couple of files (kudzu and syslog from memory) because the file system has loaded read-only. After that it halts again whilst trying to start the system logging daemon.

I will try to bring the system up in single-user mode (that's runlevel 1, right?) when I get home tonight, and see what I can find out from there. Not really sure what I'm looking for, but my first stop will be demsg, then var/log/messages (after I check that the kernel is still configured to log there).

Any other hints would be appreciated!

I don't know how to change the run level. If you think that will work, let me know how to change it.

if you use grub as your bootloader, you should be able to edit the boot commands and add either a 1

Mine works when I have
kernel /bzImage-2.6.12-mm1-rc3   1   vga=0x317

I still don't understand how to do this stuff. I am extremely new to Linux. I know absolutely nothing about any of the commands. If you are going to tell me what to do, you need to tell me exactly what to type and when to type it. I'm sorry that I am this dumb about everything. I'm just trying to learn everything I can.

Do you know if you are using grub or lilo as your bootloader?
I imagine it is grub.

I am about 75% sure that it is grub. I remember seeing that while I was loading and I don't think that I have ever heard of lilo.

When you are at the boot prompt screen,

press e which allows you to edit to boot parameters.
Add the number 1 after the kernel parameter, which looks like bzImage-2.6.##

So it would look like kernel /bzImage-2.6.12-mm1-rc3   1   vga=0x317

I don't think that I have a boot prompt. Everything happens on its own until it freezes at the "Configuring kernel parameters."

Is there a way to force a boot prompt to come up?

Again, I have no idea about anything in Linux.

My guess is fedora has a button you can press to get the boot screen, but I dropped redhat/fedora a long time ago before bootscreen were used.

Thanks for all of the help and trying to fix my problem. I still can't get it to work so I am going to install Redhat 7.2 or Redhat 9. We'll see how that works for me.