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
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