hi.... i have installed FC6..i made a full install...but there is no response at "starting smartd :" it jus freezes literally.... previously it was freezing at "starting HAL daemon".then i disabled haldaemon by doing "chkconfig haldaemon off".. but now wen i tried to boot fedora again i got struck up at
"starting smartd : hdb : dma_timer_expiry:dma status==0x64"
hdbMA interrupt recovery
hdb:lost interupt"
and it keeps repeating... but it does'nt boot up...wat could be the problem? can u please help??? thanks

and now i noticed that when i go to "interactive startup" and disable some service(almost all) i am able to get the desktop... the serices i disabled are
kudzu
ip6tables
iptables
restore cond
syslog
irqbalance portmap
nfs lock
rpc idmapd
rpc gssd
qutofs sshd
gpm
anacron
atd
readahead_later
smartd
...............on the interactive startup if i give "no" to these services i am able to get the desktop and it works fine... wat shall i do now to boot normally without going for interative startup ???

The messages regarding hdb seem to indicate you may be having trouble with a hard drive. Do you have a device /dev/hdb? Does smartctl indicate any errors on the drive? Does dmesg show any additional errors for hdb?

thanks for ur reply....to b more specific i have two 40gb drives....i have 4 partitions on hda where windows is installed...and three fat32 partitions on 2nd harddrive and one ext3(/) and one swap...therefore i habve installed linux on hdb..as mentioned earlier windows is installed in hda... i guess i am clear n not confusing ... by d way wat is smartctl?? am sorry i am not an expert.. jus a newbie... there r no errors shown by dmesg....