On Thu, 2010-06-10 at 21:22 -0600, Linuxguy123 wrote: > I've had boot problems for months and I'm trying to figure out if its > the hard drive or a kernel problem. > > I just upgraded to F13. I've been running F12 since it came out. > > Back in January, 2010 I began experiencing boot problems. When I boot, > grub will always run reliably but about 2/3rds of the time the kernel > won't start running after you select it. All I get is a blinking cursor > on a black screen. > > I've never not been able to get my computer to boot, but sometimes it > takes 5 tries. Sometimes it works the first time. > > I never had any boot problems before it started in January. > > I've checked the hard drive. All the SMART data says the drive is fine. > And grub has never failed to run. Have you run memcheck? > So is there something wrong with my laptop or is this a kernel problem ? It would help if you mentioned your laptop make or model. poc -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
