Fedora :: Computer Fails To Boot?
Nov 14, 2009
I am running Fedora 11 on a Gigabyte GA-MA790X-DS4 MB, AMD x2, and three WD5000AAKS 500Gb drives. Today, I had to reboot, and the PC stops on a normal reboot with merely the word GRUB on a line on its own.
It takes a long time to perform the "Detecting IDE drives" process which may be some help in diagnosis.
When I tried to boot in with the installation disk to do a rescue, it got as far as complaining with the following messages before freezing completely:-
ata1: SATA link up 3.0 Gbps (SStatus 123 SControl 300)
ata1: link online but device misclassified, retrying
ata1: reset failed (errno=-11) retrying in 5 secs
then it displays
ata1: limiting SATA link speed to 1.5Gbps
after which it freezes
diagnosis of what is wrong will be gratefully received. I am beginning to think that I will need to replace the MB.
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Dec 10, 2009
My computer refuses to boot. When I try to boot from my hard drive, it's just stuck at that annoying little thing in the upper left corner, blinking, driving me crazy
When I try to boot from a live media it just gets stuck at "ACPI: Core revision 20070126"
I've tried various CD's and it's just telling me the same thing. I can't figure out what is wrong.
Lately my i've experience that for some reason my computer would just turn off, and sometimes reboot.
I've read a little about ACPI, and it's a shortening for Advanced Configuration and Power Interface.
When entering my BIOS and going to the "Power"-tab i have the possibillity of enabling ACPI 2.0 support. Don't know if this is a good idea though, and i won't risk destroying my computer
Hardware configuration:
Processor: Intel Pentium 4 3.2Ghz
Motherboard: Some old ASUS
Memory: 2GB
Video Card: Ati Radeon 9600 128MB
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Jul 11, 2011
on my Fedora box, updates have caused some major issues. Since kernel 2.6.30, the boot sequence goes through my BIOS boot, then to Grub, and then just flashes colours repeatedly. Red, green, white, black, blue, over and over again. This happens for 2.6.32 also. I have to boot into 2.6.27 in order for it to work properly.
I'm using a Dell XPS M1730 with (I believe) an NVidiao 9800M GTX graphics card. I'm using the "Gallium 0.4 on NV84" graphics adapter.
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Oct 1, 2009
As the post title says I have attempted to move my FC11 from a 120 gig ide drive to a 250 gig sata drive. I have tried all of the following with the same result listed below: Basic setup is as folows:
old hdd /dev/sda1 (boot) /dev/sda2(swap) /dev/sda3 (/)
attempt 1- boot fc11 live cd with old drive detected as sda and nwe drive detected as sdb.
dd if=/dev/sda of=/dev/sdb bs=512
attempt 2 - boot into fc11 live cd fdisk remove old partitionon /dev/sdb and create exact copy of partition table on /dev/sda on /dev/sdb - mark /sdb1 as bootable and copy /dev/sda1 + /dev/sda3 to /dev/sdb1 and /dev/sdb3
dd if=/dev/sda* of=/dev/sdb* bs=512 (* denotes 1 or 3 respectively)
attempt 3 boot linux rescue cd based on debian
run gparted to remove old partitions on /dev/sdb
use gparted to copy partitions from /dev/sda to /dev/sdb
All of the above result in the following (as best as I can describe it)
system self checks OK
system loads GRUB menu -OK
system appears to load kernel and then hangs after outputting device information regarding my USB keyboard and mouse.
Is there some magic that I am missing? system.map perhaps? Additonal info: grub.conf looks like:
# grub.conf generated by anaconda
#
# Note that you do not have to rerun grub after making changes to this file
# NOTICE: You have a /boot partition. This means that
[code]....
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Nov 9, 2009
The boot process fails using; 2.6.30.9-96.fc11.x86_64. I am able to successfully boot by selecting 2.6.30.5-43.fc11.x86_64 from GRUB. The last few messages I receive when booting using 2.6.30.9-96.fc11.x86_64;
ADDRCONF (NETDEV_UP): eth0: link is not ready
Sky2 eth0 link is up at 100 mps, full duplex flow control rx
ADDRCONF (NETDEV_CHANGE):eth0: link becomes ready
audit (1257757711.701:20095): auid=4294967295 ses=4294967295 subj=system_u:system_r:readahead_t:s0 op=remove role key=null list=2 res=0
audit (1257757711.701:20096): audit_enabled=0 old=1 auid=4294967295 ses=4294967295 subj=system_u:system_r:readahead_t:s0 res=1
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Jan 7, 2010
I just did a software update moments ago of things that were in the auto update thingthere were around 20 of them and some were for abrt and some kerneloops thing...But now i can't boot up...I get the following error...
Code:
[drm:drm_mode_rmfb] *ERROR* tried to remove a fb that we didn't own
Boot has failed, sleeping forever.
[code]....
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Sep 9, 2010
I recently upgraded my video card from a GeForce4 MX 440 AGP 8X to a GeForce FX 5500 AGP 8X. After that my 1360x768 monitor was stuck on a 1024x768 resolution. I ran system-config-display and under Hardware tab I changed the monitor setting from "Generic LCD Screen" to "1360x768 LCD Screen" with the acknowledgment that /etc/X11/xorg.conf file was been modified. After reboot the boot process stuck on:tarting kojid: Kerberos authentication failed. "Resource temporary unavailable" (11) [FAILED]I tried that with both 2.6.34.6-54 and 2.6.34.6-47 kernels available on my system.I use the latest KDE version available for Fedora.
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Nov 15, 2010
After updating my kernel from 2.6.34.7-56.fc13.i686 to 2.6.34.7-61.fc13.i686 I can't boot anymore. The error message says: "No root device found Boot has failed, sleeping forever."
I'm booting from 2.6.34.7-56.fc13.i686 now but I would like to sort this thing out. What should I do? File a bug? I never did that, so I don't know where to go.
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Jul 13, 2011
[URL]i discovered a new problem. The command to look for failed services reports the following:
Code:
systemctl list-units --failed
UNIT LOAD ACTIVE SUB JOB DESCRIPTION
akmods.service loaded failed failed LSB: Builds and install new kmods from akmod packages
LOAD = Reflects whether the unit definition was properly loaded.
ACTIVE = The high-level unit activation state, i.e. generalization of SUB.
SUB = The low-level unit activation state, values depend on unit type.
JOB = Pending job for the unit.
1 units listed. Pass --all to see inactive units, too. The akmods.service is installed of the nvidia graphics card module, which loads fine and is behaving fine. I tried to disable the service and then enable it again, but the error persists.
Is this just a kind of notification, that everything is okay, and no new modules need to be build? Or is this indication for possible breakage ahead during next kernel update?
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Feb 5, 2009
After editing gdm and reming out line "auth required pam_suceed....................!=root quiet" the server boots but hang with the login screen. other highlighed but all options greyed out.
Boots OK in text mode and operates OK.
After restoring original gdm file problem still persists.
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Jun 18, 2009
Anyone succeed with f11 install on netbook (/ on SDHC, /boot on primary SSD/HDD drive)?
My netbook (AAO) works just fine with f11 Live-on-usb-sick (created with live-usb-creator), but fails to boot fedora from SDHC.
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Jul 24, 2009
I have sevral older machines that cannot boot from usb. Until now I have installed fedora using the provided boot.iso on a CD and an external USB dvd drive with the full install DVD.
With Fedora 11, this fails. It gets as far as "finding storage devices" and fails, telling me that an unhandled exception has occured. It offers to save the details, but freezes looking for a suitable location. I have no such problems with the same DVD/external rw drive on systems that can boot directly from usb.
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Aug 24, 2010
I'm completely stumped by a problem with httpd in Fedora 13. It fails to start on boot: I can see: Starting htpd: FAILED, in /var/log/boot.log, but I can't find anything else in messages, audit.log or anywhere else that gives me any clue why. The weird thing is that running:
run_init service httpd start
after boot _works_ and the server runs fine, but even when it's running OK,
service httpd status
reports
httpd dead but subsys locked
I'm guessing that the problem somehow relates to selinux, but I can't find anything in the audit logs that gives me a clue. How to turn on more logging so that I can get closer to the problem. I finally discovered the cause. This system was originally configured to use network services directly, without NetworkManager. It had been upgraded a number of times since installation. It seems that over time, if you have turned off NetworkManager, the defaults have changed. Used to be that the network services was 'enabled' by default (hence started at run time). Now, the default is 'disabled'. Httpd couldn't start because there was no network to start on. Enabling network services at boot time fixed this. I guess I should have noticed this. But one might think that httpd failing to start because of the lack of a network might at least give a warning message in the logs about the reason.
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Nov 22, 2010
I started preupgrade with a 200M /boot partition 50% full. According to the instructions, it is supposed to give me the option of downloading the stage2 installer later. It doesn't, and crashes horribly (see below).This worked from FC12 to FC13. Reparititioning will take a day because the FC12 kindly made the root file system LVM and nothing will resize it. (I tried this with FC11 -> 12 and ended up losing everything and rebuilding the 1T disk).
Code:
$ sudo preupgrade
Loaded plugins: blacklist, whiteout
[code]....
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May 29, 2011
I am trying to boot Fedora15 using a USB stick. It fails to boot properly It works fine when I boot Fedora 14 using the same usb stick. I've attached some screenshots. Trying to run it on a Lenovo T500 2081CTO with an ATI graphics card.
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Feb 21, 2009
I have an old computer (with floppy drive ) which does not support booting from USB drive.
However, it can boot from CD drive.
I have already created a USB disk with Fedora 10 which I use merrily in my another computer.
But how do I use it in the old computer?
Is there any way to initially boot via CD and then transfer control to USB Fedora?
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Dec 10, 2009
Basicly I turned off. I turn back on and the Plymouth Graphical Splash just sits there when the "F" apears... I managed to get a text login by doing ALT+Control+F2 and managed to get on IRC and I got some help (I still can't boot normaly) but thanks to the solution by nirik which was to get a text-login and to run startx, that works, however it doesn't fix the problem of me not being able to boot normaly, If I add nomodeset to the KMS I get:[URL] strangly enough the reason why I reset is because the Internet wasn't working. This error seems to mention eth0 quite a bit..
---------- Post added at 03:18 AM CST ---------- Previous post was Yesterday at 09:31 PM CST ----------BUMP. Come on this is stoping games from working, ETC---------- Post added at 03:31 AM CST ---------- Previous post was at 03:18 AM CST ----------I relise I haven't posted much info..
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Nov 16, 2010
I can't boot F14 on my computer because of a bug in the intel AGP driver.
[URL]
This is still a bug in the latest kernel
[URL]
but looks like it's fixed in 2.6.35-7.12
When will this kernel be release?
Is there any way to bypass this driver during boot up so I can install F14?
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Feb 14, 2009
I'm setting up my first Linux install and I was wondering if I would be able to boot Fedora from a CD while keeping every other file on my computer, or in other words if I would be able to put the /boot partition onto a cd. I've also read that Linux can be booted entirely from a logical partition. If that's true then can anyone help me in setting that up. Mostly my problem is I already have four primary partitions, one being a logical drive with plenty of free space in it, and I can't get rid of the primary partitions I already have.
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Sep 4, 2011
I have recently installed Fedora 15 KDE (with Dual Boot Win7) on my computer:Dell Optiplex 330, Intel Core2Duo- 2.53 GHz, 32 Bit, 2GB RamnVIDIA 8400 GSWhile going through the Guides mentioned here: for F15, I tried to install nVIDIA Drivers after updating the Kernel.suyum update kernel*rebootHowever it gave me some errors and then I did try the following method (as described in Missingbox studio guide)su -yum install akmod-nvidia xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-libs.i686 bootconf-gui kernel*develfollowed by Reboot.
I start my computer, I get the screen which shows that Fedora will boot in 3 seconds. This is followed by a black screen with a "Blue followed by white" Bar running towards right (where Fedora 15 is written)....It stays there for ever (I waited for 3 hours and then switched off my computer).Presently I am writing this post through Windows7.Is there any way I can repair Fedora through Win7 or by any other means.---------- Post added at 10:57 AM ---------- Previous post was at 10:51 AM ----------I remember the instructions (given by leigh123linux) that we should provide the following information
rpm -qa *vidia* *kernel*|sort;uname -r;lsmod |grep -e nvidia -e nouveau;cat /etc/X11/xorg.confI had it saved as a .txt file in my home folder.
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Nov 20, 2009
I've created an LiveUSB disk with the USBcreator method in Windows 7.Now the the image is copied succesfully and the USB key is bootable.However when the boot window popsup and I select the verify & boot option, a graphical loading window comes up and right after that the system halts with the error message "Sleeping forever".What am I doing wrong? Or what is Fedora doing wrong with their LiveCD to USB media?I've did a forum search and the exact same issue is described in this thread[URL]
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Mar 6, 2010
Arpwatch is failing to start at boot time. I got this message:
arpwatch: bad interface eth0: eth0: no ipv4 address assigned
Once I login into my account, I can (as root) run the arpwatch demon, but it is suppose to run at boot time. After I installed aprwatch, it was working correctly. I do not have an idea of what happens or since when the problem start to happen. I just realize, after a while , that arpwatch was not running. I am running Fedora 12 - 2.6.32.9-67.fc12
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Jun 11, 2010
My F12 installation, which was installed on an HP tx2500z laptop and has been operating relatively well since January, now fails to boot after a frozen screen precipitated a forced shutdown. On reboot, I was dropped into a shell with the error message "Error reading block 1546 (Attempt to read block from file system resulted in a short read) while getting next inode from scan." recommending to run fsck manually. During the fsck run, after a substantial number of Pass 1 inode count corrections, the "Error reading block" message reappeared, with the question "Ignore error<y>" to which I answered "y".
fsck responded with "Force rewrite<y>". Since I did not know what would be written here, I said "no". I then forced shutdown, rebooted into Windows, and searched for further guidance. One suggestion was to run fsck -y on the affected partition. My laptop drive has four partitions, the first two being allocated to Windows and an HP supplied repair partition. sda3 is a tiny boot partition (100 MB), and sda4/5 is the LVM remainder.
fsck -y /dev/sda3 told me the boot partition was fine.
fsck -y /dev/sda4 stopped immediately and asked "Could this be a zero-length file partition?". Given the ext3 structure, I suppose the correct answer is yes.
fsck -y /dev/sda5 told me fsck.LVM2_Member: not found.
Following this, I then attempted again to reboot, and ran fsck without options. Once again, during Pass 1, Block 1546 exhibited the short read error, again asking about a rewrite - which I once again answered no. Pass 1 completed with another substantial number of inode count corrections, and Pass 2 started - immediately generating the message:
'passwd' in /etc/pam.d (65556) has deleted/unused node 7831. Clear<y>
After some hesitancy, I said "yes", and of course a second similar message appeared. I was brave enough to answer "yes" six more times, with the first two referring to /etc/pam.d inodes, and the next four referring to /etc/security/console.apps inodes. The eighth message, also similar, referred to inodes elsewhere - but by now I did not dare to continue and forced shutdown. Is this repairable, and if so, how?
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Jun 2, 2009
I have transferred FC10-liveCD on to 1GB USB using liveusb-creator.
But the computer cannot start up with this one, die after leaving following message:
Cannot find linux kernel image boot:
I don't know what's wrong. I got the same error message when I transfered boot.img onto USB.
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Aug 6, 2009
I have a Dell notebook without cd-rom. I want to use a usb-pen to boot the computer so I can do a netinstall. Unfortunately I can't find much discussing this topics. At least as far as I can see.. Everybody is talking about making the usb a live-cd etc etc tec.. There has to be an easier way? It should be possible to just copy file1 2 and 3 over to the usb here in Vista, reboot and start the install so I can type in the location and start the netinstall!
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Mar 30, 2009
I have the Samba server & users configured, I can access between Linux/Windows shares and both SMB & NMB services are set to be enabled at boot.Everything working.But when I restart the computer, I notice in services configuration that "This service is dead." for NMB. Therefore I have to enable it manually upon boot so that it works.I'm using Fedora 10, fresh installed and updated. I've noticed through search that others have had this issue as well throughout other versions of Fedora, yet I have not found a conclusive solution to this.
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Feb 23, 2010
Finally updates are broken - I've been able to use my upgraded F12 system for some time, faithfully keeping up with f10, then f11. Just yesterday it finally broke:
Test Transaction Errors: installing package kernel-2.6.31.12-174.2.22.fc12.i686 needs 10MB on the /boot filesystem
It would appear that the most recent kernel update has broken the 10MB barrier initially set by the version I first installed (for the boot partition). Needless to say, I have quite an investment in this machine, and of course no time to back it all up and do a fresh F12 install. I am hoping someone out there can give me a bulletproof way to steal some space and expand the boot partition...
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Oct 1, 2009
I just noticed that there is an icon on my desktop that is named Filesystem, it is the Windows XP portion of the hard drive. I don't remember seeing it on the desktop, I only noticed it 15 minutes ago after installing Adobe flash player. Is that icon supposed to be on my Fedora desktop?
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Mar 4, 2010
I'm a F11 user and I wanted to see the new Windows 7 and right now, the computer doesn't boot via grub.
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Jul 21, 2010
Just finished a security update, (Fedora 12) and it said I had to restart the computer to have it take effect. When I restarted, all I got was the "Compaq" logo....forever. No Grub2 (it's a three system set up), no bios, just the brand name of the box. Even worse, when I tried going at it with a live cd, the same thing; the bios never loads, so no live cd fix.
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