First off, I have had troubles locking up all through the install process as well, only way I could complete that is text mode install for the first part (package install partitioning and boot loader config) and using skipddc as a kernel option at grub before the finalization of settings part. after that it brings me to the login screen, I enter my info, and it boots KDE, (same thing happens with Gnome btw) once the kde loader screen dissappears, the mouse still moves but nothing responds when I click. just locks up the second kde is done loading.. I have a Geforce 5200fx sound card, a AMD athlon xp, and 1gb of ram which came out clean in memtest86, SuSe linux does the same exact thing as well, but no other distro does (eg mandrake, knoppix, slackware etc..) are there any options im missing, or known issues of the same type? thanks in advance Sean
First.. What version of Fedora Core? 1? 2? 3-T1?
What hardware? A Laptop? You on a dual proc? Running a P4 maybe?
Might want to (from the grub menu) hit "A" (for append) and then try a combination of these " noapic nopcmcia nofb 3"
(leave the "3" in there with which ever other options you use, and you'll boot into runlevel 3 (text only))
then <ENTER> to boot.
(most of this from page 31 of the new "Linux Troubleshooting Bible")
That should at least help get you up and running from the command line... then use the text login (as root) to do an "up2date --nox -u" from the command line and get your system updated & patched.
I've really gone to far given the amount of info you provided.. so I'll just stop there for now until you can give us a bit more to go on...
Tweeks
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