Fedora 9 Help

Recently I got sick of windows and I decided to try linux again.

Ubuntu wouldn't install at all, so I chose Fedora since I was familiar with 4, and 6.

Everything installed fine, everything seemed to work fine. But when I let it go through the updates it eventually locks up and I have to hold the power button down. Then I let it boot back up and it freezes at the loading screen.

I have reinstalled about 7 times, trying little things like leaving it alone or only updating bits at a time. Nothing seems to work.

Any ideas?

You may have to add some additional options to the boot sequence for it to load properly.

Actually, I think in ubuntu it easier because it provides certain options on the boot menu to solve this problem. To solve it in ubuntu, select f6 for "other options"..and check all of these options "acpi = off" "noapic" and "nolapic" , a little asterisk will appear next to the selected option.

It'll work fine then, but you may have to add these options to the grub menu.list, so you don't have to keep adding them in every time.

Also, after you have installed, you may not have the f6 option and it might just try to load and then hang. If this happens do this.

When booting from the harddisk quickly press esc to enter the menu. Then select ubuntu section and press e to edit, then select the second kernel recovery and press e to edit.

and add these to the end of the boot sequence line "acpi = off" "noapic" and "nolapic" without the quotes.

Then it'll boot perfectly fine. You will want to add those options to /boot/grub/menu.list where it says "# defoptions" and "# altoptions"

Once you're in, start a terminal window and type this.

This will back up your original grub/menu.lst

sudo cp /boot/grub/menu.lst /boot/grub/menu.lst.backup

This will open up grub/menu/lst in a text editor , so you can make the changes.

gksudo gedit /boot/grub/menu.lst

This just updates it after your done.

sudo update-grub

I'm not sure how about doing it in fedora, as I haven't really used it. But I'm assuming it'll be pretty much be the same thing, and might even provide similar boot options.

Post back, to lets us know how you're getting along.

I can get into Fedora fine, I can use mozilla and download crap and do whatever. Its when I try to go through the updates that it freaks out and locks up, causing me to hard reset which causes Fedora not to load until I reinstall it completely.

[Prometheum]

Are you sure it locks up (as in hard lock, caps lock or other LEDs flashing) or does it just get really slow?

Well I got everything working.

I let it freeze up, then let it sit for a while. While it was frozen up I couldn't do anything, not even change the capslock. But I noticed the clock was still going. Finally after about an hour and a half i restarted (which worked fine this time), no progress had been made on the updates. Tried again, go most of the way though before it locked up. Did it again and it managed to finish up all of the updates.

Thanks for all the help, though I would still like to know what the hell happened.

[Prometheum]

Originally Posted by Geek

Well I got everything working.

I let it freeze up, then let it sit for a while. While it was frozen up I couldn't do anything, not even change the capslock. But I noticed the clock was still going. Finally after about an hour and a half i restarted (which worked fine this time), no progress had been made on the updates. Tried again, go most of the way though before it locked up. Did it again and it managed to finish up all of the updates.

Thanks for all the help, though I would still like to know what the hell happened.

Try only downloading the updates, then installing them. This should at least isolate whatever bug is there.