On Dec 13, 2007 11:47 AM, Debasish Das <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 12/12/07, Amit Joshi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Dec 10, 2007 9:23 AM, Debasish Das <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > On 12/6/07, Nadeem M. Khan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > On Dec 6, 2007 12:22 AM, Debasish Das <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > > > I use Fedora core 7 in my laptop. I am getting a pecuiliar > problem. > > > > > The problem is that when I choose fedora from grub menu, sometimes > my > > > > > machine does not boot. It just hangs. > > > > >
Yes. I guess that I overlooked the "sometimes" part. ;) I remember long ago, I had a problem with acpi on Slackware 10.1. But the problem was not related to booting. The machine won't shutdown automatically. Regards, Amit. > > > > > On what screen does it hang? > > > > > > > > Does it hang at the grub screen, or does it hang at the [OK] / > [FAILED] > > > > screen? > > > > > > > After choosing the fedora kernel from grub screen when I press enter > key > > > , it just hangs. > > > > > > > > > Hangs as in there's no display on the screen? It maybe a graphics > problem. > > Try removing the vga=xxx lines from your grub.conf. You can edit grub by > > pressing the 'e' key when grub loads. You can find vga=xxx (if it > exists) in > > the kernel line. > > > But it does not happen all the times. If the problem is with vga then > it should never boot. Though I will try what you have suggested. > > > Also, do you see any activity on your hard-disk? You can find this out > by > > checking the Hard disk LED which usually blinks every now and then the > Hard > > disk is accessed. > > > I will check it once again. > > > > Regards, > > Amit. > > -- > > http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers > > > -- > http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers > -- http://mckagan.googlepages.com -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
