On Thu, Dec 25, 2008 at 1:56 PM, Jim mickeyboa@sbcglobal.net wrote:
FC10 My Dell Laptop is locking up in the boot process just after;
Starting anacron: [ OK ]
how can i tell what is locking it up
Can you get a console with ctl-alt-f1? Can you ssh in? Or is it just a dead thing?
Try booting into text mode or single user - hit space bar after bios is done to get into the boot menu (grub?), hit tab to edit the boot params, put a 3 at the end of the kernel line. (Or something like that - I am going from memory. s or S might boot to single user?) If you can get that far, you can try to start up various things and see what won't.
Or do interactive boot, I never do so I don't remember how to get it started. There is probably a hint spalshed on the screen at the critical time ' hit something to enter interactive boot'. ???
anacron is about the last thing to start up (this is from fc9, hoping fc10 similar):
ls -1 /etc/rc5.d [snip] S98cups S99anacron S99fedora-late-live S99local
Does X get started, or act like it is trying to start?
Dave