Installed fc12 on a pentium 4 - 3.2 gig cpu, 2 gig mem, 6 gig root, 2 gig swap and 12 gig home.

Install completed and on reboot it freezes near end of boot process. Install disk is good, install worked on a laptop.

How do I find the cause of the freeze?

What's the last thing it says before it freezes? I think it's "Esc" or "I" to show what the boot process is doing.

what is the 3d card , if you have one ?
a ATI or Nvidia

or is it a built in chip on the mobo ?

nfslock

It has an Intel LaCross D865 MB with a built in video disabled and a Nvidia Gforce MX4000 64 meg AGP video card.

well if your built in chip is disabled AND LISTED SECOND in the bios and disabled in the ( not yet wrote) xorg.conf , fedora dose not use it by default
AND
you are using the SAME nvidia.run in my sig
NVIDIA-Linux-x86-96.43.14-pkg1.run
fedora should boot into gnome


BUT NOT ON THE INSTALL FIRST BOOT

for that old nvidia card ( with a built in chip also)
your very first boot WILL BE TEXT ONLY

you will also need to make sure that the fedora kernel source in installed and gcc
then install the nvidia.run
then hack the " hand wrote" xorg.conf ( you might need to wright this by hand for the built in chip and to blacklist the nuveu driver)

" nvidia-xconfig" might run on the second reboot ( the first after installing the .run driver

--- note ---
all of the above will need to be done in the terminal -- text only .

Does removing nfs-utils (I think this is the nfs package) help? I would boot a live CD and chroot into your installed environment to do this.

First let me explain more, I live where the only option we had till about 4 months ago was wireless modems so and the silver streak I have needs a driver that requires python 2.5 or better so I have no way to get to the repositories.

I have installed Tiny Me and Freespire which have older kernels and they work, then Fedora. I have also tried to use knoppix and Open Suse 11.2 which freeze. When I try and mount the fedora drive from another distro it tells me the partition is locked. Will the ext 3 systems read an ext 4 file?

I used the system rescue on the fedora disk and it will give you a shell bash with the nano editor. I could not find anything in the /etc/X11/xorg.conf file. The same with the nfs-utils.

I removed the video card and tried a new install using the onboard video and with the same results.

Still looking for ideas.

see my post above

that old nvidia card WILL give you trouble with fedora
that is one of the reasons i moved to Arch
AND have CentOS 5.4 installed

with fedora you WILL need to blacklist the open nividia driver ( the default for fedora)
read the fedora forum help post by "leigh123linux"
"Reload this Page F12,F11 & F10 Nvidia driver guides "
http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=204752


BUT use the nividia .run driver from nividia ( and REINSTALL mesa-openGL)
see my nividia posts there on the fedoraforum
http://www.nvidia.com/object/linux_d..._96.43.16.html

all of the above WILL be done in TEXT only
gnome WILL NOT RUN until the nvidia driver is installed,and configured .

this is a "pain in the ??? "but for that card ...

Hi and again thanks for the links, I have the picture and will work on it.

The problem I am having is that I cannot download the nvidia driver to my ext3 partitions...and cannot connect to rpmfusion repo to install while in boot console. Any ideas?

You have to have a write permission for the folder/partition you are trying to write/create file on. Most likely you created that partition/folder as root and have not set write and create permissions for "others".

Thanks for the help. I ended up downloading/installing "Ext2Fsd" for Windows, and moved the nvidia .run file from a windows partition to my /home directory. I, then, was able to install the downloaded driver. I think the reason I could not connect to a repo from the boot console, is that when upgrading FC12 created repositories with a .new extension, keeping the FC10 repos intact.