From: Chris Rouch chris.rouch@gmail.com Subject: Re: Fedora 13 installation, does not boot On 17 July 2010 15:57, Vincent Onelli vonelli@optonline.net wrote:
Hello,
I installed f13 on Dell dimension 8300 (with two HD 120GB for
windows
end 320GB for Fedora) several time with 32 bit iso file downloaded
from
3 different place bit torrent, the iso file to install on dvd, and another side 32 bit 3.1GB. ?The first one from bit torrent on reboot display error 17 cannot
mount
selected partition pressing enter shows the following line: ?Fedora (2.6.33.3-85.fc13.i686.PAE pressing enter here goes right
back
to error 17. The second and the third on reboot the cursor moves to upper left
corner
the screen and stays there blinking forever. By the way on this machine f10,f11,f12 all work fine.
I appreciate very much if some body can help, else I will be forced
to
reinstall f12
You could try to edit the kernel line from the grub boot menu. Remove the rhgb and quiet options. This won't fix the problem, but it should show you what's happening before the hang.
It could be that your initramfs file is corrupt - it doesn't have references to the correct disks. If so, booting into rescue mode, chrooting to the real root and running dracut again might fix it. But that is just a guess.
On my system, with a separate boot partition I'd run:
dracut -f /boot/initramfs-$(uname -r).img $(uname -r)
Regards,
Chris
Thank you for the reply. I try to run your line using rescue disk this is the answer: find: '/lib/modules/2.6.33.3-85.fc13.i686/':no such file or directory find: '/lib/modules/2.6.33.3-85.fc13.i686/':no such file or directory find: '/lib/modules/2.6.33.3-85.fc13.i686/':no such file or directory find: '/lib/modules/2.6.33.3-85.fc13.i686//kernel/drivers':no such file or directory find: '/lib/modules/2.6.33.3-85.fc13.i686/':no such file or directory find: '/lib/modules/2.6.33.3-85.fc13.i686/':no such file or directory
I don't know what this means, the file /boot/initramfs-2.6.33.3-85.fc13.i686.img is there I try to open grub.conf it would not let me. if there is any other Idea I would like to try.