fedora hangs while booting

[geerty159]

Hi,

I have just built a computer from scrap to run amahi. I have installed fedora, which worked fine until it asked me to reboot. When Fedora boots it hang somewhere in the boot process and the screen turns black. This problem occurs always and on the same time in te boot process.

My home server is based on an Asrock A330GC motherboard with a atom dualcore processor (1.6 Ghz), 2x 512 mb 667 mhz ddr2 memory and has an on board intel graphics media accelerator 950.

As I am a total linux newbie I have no idea what to do.

Is there a solution to this problem? Thanks in advance.

edit: I got it to work a bit, but everytime I change user or restart it happens again and I have to restart a couple of times before I can get it to work again. Could this be some problem with the graphical interface of Fedora?

[cpg]

If you are new to this stuff and have other things in the disk, this is somewhat dangerous.

Try asking in the Fedora channel.

i think you need to reinstall grub, however, this advice is provided AS IS ... you could destroy other data. Follow at your own risk (it assumes your main disk is /dev/sda and the boot record is in the MBR):

- boot in rescue mode
- tell it to mount your existing system
- in a secondary console (alt-f2) type: chroot /mnt/sysimage
- after that, type grub-install /dev/sda

[moredruid]

at which point does the boot process hang?
do you get an error message?

[geerty159]

Hi, thanks for the quick replies, but I have solved the problem using this page: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Common_F1 ... s_adapters. I've added the kernel parameter nomodeset. This is not permanent, but it boots fine now.