2008/12/26 David Burns <tdbtdb@xxxxxxxxx>: > On Thu, Dec 25, 2008 at 1:56 PM, Jim <mickeyboa@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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 -- Suvayu Open source is the future. It sets us free. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
