Fedora 5 will not boot

zdenisl · 06-08-2006, 08:18 PM

I just installed Fedora 5 on top of an existing RH9 install. I did not do an upgrade. I installed the Fedora 5 disk one and selected a fresh install.

During boot the last message is:

Code:

Starting udev...

My previous (and current) install was on 2 200GB HD's with various software mirrored devices and LVM for everything except the root fs.

Do I need to dd the boot sectors or a superblock to clean up some old stuff from the previous RH9 instance?

Thanks!

b0nd · 06-08-2006, 09:05 PM

hi,
where have you installed the bootloader of Fedora ???

regards

zdenisl · 06-08-2006, 09:51 PM

Grub was installed during the install and I didn't specify any specific location. I guess it went to the default location on primary /dev/hda (I have 2 disks).

I get to the grub screen and the kernal img is listed in the grub screen. It starts to boot. The message just before "setting udev" is "setting UTC" and the time is displayed.

zdenisl · 06-09-2006, 02:11 PM

Can anyone please help me with this? I did a fresh install and cannot boot.

Bobymc · 06-09-2006, 07:15 PM

Try to boot from Install CD manually.

Possibly Boot FLOPPY if there's any.

zdenisl · 06-09-2006, 08:05 PM

I can boot from install cd. The OS loaded completely and finished. At the very end when the prompt is to restart it will not completely load.

H E L P

b0nd · 06-09-2006, 09:21 PM

hi,
Help yourself by reading these

regards

Bobymc · 06-11-2006, 01:43 PM

From what I've read from your messg;

there could be a hardware problem(incompatilbe) with FED5.
Remember what you've plugged/unplugged in your PC.
Maybe BIOS setting, can affect LINUX OS

IF the problem is the bootloader;

As I said before;try to boot from CD/boot FLOPPY then edit your GRUB configuration.
You should know where you've put your bootloader

Are you using RAID controller?

zdenisl · 06-12-2006, 05:57 PM

rrudra - I read those posts. It looks like that's my problem but how could I install an rpm if I cannot get the system to boot. It gets to udev then loops in the boot sequence. From this post in your link:

Code:

P.S. 27/05/2006 
I have it working now. Visit this link so you know your whereabouts and follow this procedure :

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla....cgi?id=186842

1)Download mdraid-rpm mentioned in bugzilla and install it
2)fix the raid size by typing “dmraid -a n && dmraid -a y”
3)remove kernel 2.6.16 (if installed)
4)install the kernel again (this generate a proper initrd)
5)reboot and be happy

Does that look like my fix? How would I do it?

bobymc - how would I know if it's a hw compatability problem? I'm using a TUL XPRESS 200P mboard, Sempron 3000 CPU, ATI Raedon express 200 graphic card and 2 250GB Maxtor IDE HDD's. Bootloader is grub.

Here's my /etc/grub.conf

Code:

# grub.conf generated by anaconda
#
# Note that you do not have to rerun grub after making changes to this file
# NOTICE:  You do not have a /boot partition.  This means that
#          all kernel and initrd paths are relative to /, eg.
#          kernel /boot/vmlinuz-version ro root=/dev/md0
#          initrd /boot/initrd-version.img
#boot=/dev/md0
default=0
timeout=5
splashimage=(hd0,0)/boot/grub/splash.xpm.gz
hiddenmenu
title Fedora Core (2.6.15-1.2054_FC5)
        root (hd0,0)
        kernel /boot/vmlinux-2.6.15-1.2054_FC5 ro root=/dev/md0 rhgb quiet
        initrd /boot/initrd-2.6.15-1.2054_FC5.img

I also noticet that I get a message during boot
"md3: raid array is not clean --starting background reconstruction."

It seems to get passed this. I have two VG's, rootVG and homeVG. I see rootVG being varied online but homeVG isn't mentioned during boot.

Thanks for help.

zdenisl · 06-13-2006, 09:46 AM

I also tried to :
- boot with acpi=off pcmcia=off. Didn't work.
- booted from the rescue CD and renamed /etc/udev/rules.d/60-pcmcia.rules and again, no difference

Bobymc · 06-13-2006, 02:55 PM

Is that an ASUS mainboard?
Usually asus have compatible<>enhanced IDE bios , but I doubt it since you've got RH9 running.

I have 'UNIX' system that stuck during boot process after I plugged-in USB-CF card.

I suspect it's your hardware incompatibilty.

Try to clean install of your FD5 if you let your RH9 wipe out or manually install your FD5 so it'll be 3 system in you HDD since you've got plenty of room for them...possibly.