On Thursday 08 May 2008, Forcey wrote: >On Thu, May 8, 2008 at 3:22 PM, Ric Moore <wayward4now@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> On Thu, 2008-05-08 at 06:28 +0000, g wrote: >> > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- >> > Hash: SHA1 >> > >> > Forcey wrote: >> > > Hi All, >> > > >> > > I tried to install F8 on one of my servers, but it hangs at "starting >> > > udev..." when booting. Kernel 2.6.23 for F7 has the same problem. Now >> > >> > your problems may well be different from what i had, but i can tell >> > that if you happen to be trying to boot with lilo, you will have >> > problems. >> > >> > booting with grub clear my problems, just took a while to figure out >> > what was hanging. > >I'm definitely booting with grub. > >> > also, because it does hang with udev, be sure that you are showing >> > correct designations for udev devices. ie, '(hdn,n)', *no* '/dev/hdx' >> > or '/dev/hdxn' used in. > >I think I am using (hdn,n) correctly. This is the boot parameters >(actually generated by yum) in menu.1st that won't work: > >title Fedora (2.6.23.15-80.fc7PAE) this line speaks bios > root (hd0,0) and this one speaks filesystem > kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.23.15-80.fc7PAE ro root=LABEL=/ > initrd /boot/initrd-2.6.23.15-80.fc7PAE.img And FWIW, this format also indicates that you do not have a '/boot' partition or label, instead /boot is a subdir of / If your 'boot' was a separate partition, then the "/boot" portions of the paths used for vmlinuz and initrd would not be there in the grub stanza. >> I thought it was all changed to sd(x) instead of hd(x)? Ric > >But another box runs F8 very smoothly with (hdx,y): > >title Fedora (2.6.23.1-42.fc8) noacpi > root (hd0,2) > kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.23.1-42.fc8 ro root=LABEL=/1 noacpi > initrd /boot/initrd-2.6.23.1-42.fc8.img > This (hdn,n) in the (hd0,0) means that its the first bios drive, and the first partition on that drive. In other words you have a partition used as /boot, possibly even labeled as '/boot' (doesn't care here) and its the first partition on that drive. If your /boot was partition 3 on the 2nd bios drive, then this would become "root (hd1,3)" Your second example would mean that your linux partition (you are dual booting perhaps) is the 3rd partition of the drive the bios knows as the first drive found and the rest tells me you don't have a separate '/boot' partition simply because the full path, not a relative one, is specified. -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few. -- G.B. Shaw -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
