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
On Thu, 25 Dec 2008 19:10:40 -0500 Jim wrote:
How does one do a "Rescue Mode" in FC10
Boot from the installer CD or DVD. Select "Rescue mode" from the menu.
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
2008/12/26 David Burns tdbtdb@gmail.com:
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'. ???
I once got stuck because of sendmail. Some problem with DNS resolution, and the entire boot process would stall until sendmail returned a "failed to start". This was in F8. Interactive boot helped me out then. Afaik Ctrl+i gets you into interactive boot. Once you are in you can use /sbin/chkconfig to the guilty service of or on.
As an alternative you can try what David suggests, boot to runlevel 3.
Also have a look here, http://www.mjmwired.net/resources/mjm-services-f10.html
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