Ok the noresume did take care of one error.
but the machine will still not boot with the latest kernel
I think I am having this bug
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=475773
Here is my original grub.conf without any changes except to display the splash image. I could put the noresume in this one but just wanted to leave it as untouched as possible.
# grub.conf generated by anaconda
#
# Note that you do not have to rerun grub after making changes to this file
# NOTICE: You have a /boot partition. This means that
# all kernel and initrd paths are relative to /boot/, eg.
# root (hd0,0)
# kernel /vmlinuz-version ro root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00
# initrd /initrd-version.img
#boot=/dev/sda
default=0
timeout=5
splashimage=(hd0,0)/grub/splash.xpm.gz
hiddenmenu
title Fedora (2.6.27.24-170.2.68.fc10.i686)
root (hd0,0)
kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.27.24-170.2.68.fc10.i686 ro root=/dev/dm-0 rhgb quiet vga=795
initrd /initrd-2.6.27.24-170.2.68.fc10.i686.img
title Fedora (2.6.27.21-170.2.56.fc10.i686)
root (hd0,0)
kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.27.21-170.2.56.fc10.i686 ro root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 rhgb quiet vga=795
initrd /initrd-2.6.27.21-170.2.56.fc10.i686.img
title Fedora (2.6.27.5-117.fc10.i686)
root (hd0,0)
kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.27.5-117.fc10.i686 ro root=UUID=2e6051cf-a887-4814-9a20-8a67b851425d rhgb quiet vga=795
initrd /initrd-2.6.27.5-117.fc10.i686.img
title Other
rootnoverify (hd1,0)
chainloader +1
Here is etc/fstab again
# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>
tmpfs /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0
devpts /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0
sysfs /sys sysfs defaults 0 0
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
/dev/dm-0 / ext3 defaults 1 1
#Entry for /dev/sda1 :
UUID=e3b9f1a3-cfc4-4518-8a21-c0f238502da0 /boot ext3 defaults 1 2
#Entry for /dev/sdb1 :
UUID=26880C2D880BF9D7 /media/Boot ntfs-fuse defaults,umask=0,locale=en_US.UTF-8 0 0
#Entry for /dev/sdb2 :
UUID=96343A153439F937 /media/Scratch ntfs-fuse defaults,umask=0,locale=en_US.UTF-8 0 0
/dev/dm-1 swap swap defaults 0 0
This machine is a Dell Optiplex GX270.
Currently the only fedora that works correctly is the Fedora (2.6.27.21-170.2.56.fc10.i686)
The oldest kernel boots but when the display manager tries to run it just displays a white screen in Gnome.
I switched to a text console with control alt f-key and shut it down.
There are only two hard drives in the machine. One is an ide 120 gb. The other is a SATA 250gb.
when I did a fdisk of /dev/sda1 it would not list a partition map.
Thanks, I really don't know what I need to change. I dont understand the device map logger of Fedora.