Kevin Tambascio wrote:
> I have tried three times to install 8.0 on a box that
> previously ran 7.2. The only difference is that I am
> installing to the second IDE harddrive instead of the
> first, nothing else has changed. Here is what my system
> looks like:
>
> Dell PII-450
> 20 GB Quantum HD
> RIVA 128 TNT Video Card
> 128 MB Ram
> Linksys 10/100 eth card
>
> The install works fine, and I set up linux partitions like
> this:
>
> / - ~12 GB, reiserFS
> /home - ~8 GB, resiser
> /swap - 400 MB, swap
>
> When I reboot for the first time, and anytime after that,
> during the Aurora bootup, it says "Starting X Font Server",
> and it just hangs for ever. I let it sit there for 10 or
> 15 minutes, and still nothing, no disk activity or
> anything. I picked X 4.0.3 to use as my X system.
>
> So I formatted everything again, and selected X 3.3.6 this
> time. Picked the same basic options. Got the exact same
> result. Note, the computer is not frozen, because I can do
> a Ctrl-Alt-Delete to reboot, and the system responds.
>
> So when it was frozen, I used the Alt+F1-F11 to look at all
> the different consoles to see what was going on, but there
> were no messages on the screen about what was causing xfs
> to not load (yes, I did make sure that xfs was selected in
> the install, I did a expert install).
>
> I also tried to boot up in rescue mode off the CD, and I
> went into /var to look for any logs, but /var had almost
> nothing.
>
> I reformatted again, and this time unchecked the "boot into
> graphical mode". I did this, but still got it hanging.
>
> Any suggestions?
>
> Thanks,
> Kevin
Kevin....try a seperate ext2 /boot partition.
--
Alan
