On Thu, Dec 25, 2008 at 1:56 PM, Jim <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:mickeyboa@sbcglobal.net">mickeyboa@sbcglobal.net</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
FC10<br>
My Dell Laptop is locking up in the boot process just after;<br>
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Starting anacron: &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; [ &nbsp;OK ]<br>
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how can i tell what is locking it up</blockquote><div><br>Can you get a console with ctl-alt-f1? Can you ssh in? Or is it just a dead thing? <br><br>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&#39;t.<br>
<br>Or do interactive boot, I never do so I don&#39;t remember how to get it started. There is probably a hint spalshed on the screen at the critical time &#39; hit something to enter interactive boot&#39;. ???<br><br>anacron is about the last thing to start up (this is from fc9, hoping fc10 similar):<br>
<br>ls -1 /etc/rc5.d<br>[snip]<br>S98cups<br>S99anacron<br>S99fedora-late-live<br>S99local<br><br>Does X get started, or act like it is trying to start?<br><br>Dave<br></div></div>