Re: FC6 installs and boots erratically on new HP Pavilion notebook

I'm having the same problem on totally different hardware and just a
single-boot setup. I too spideyed a timing problem and have received
some relief, albeit minor, by altering the /etc/init.d/readahead_later
script as follows (after making a copy of the original!):

- change the following line
/usr/sbin/readahead $FILES >/dev/null &
- to this
/usr/sbin/readahead $FILES >/dev/null

This was just a guess on my part, as it appeared that this was the last
thing successfully executed at boot and I reasoned that some background
process launched therein had, under certain circumstances, insufficient
time to start in order for the boot (to X-windows login) to proceed
successfully. I still get the occassional boot problem but
considerably less that before. Your mileage may vary.

Shel wrote:
Using a new HP Pavilion DV6040us notebook I reconfigured the HD to provide
three partitions, 75 GB , 39 GB, and 1 GB. The 75 was used to load Win XP
Pro, the 39 to run Fedora core 6 , and the 1GB left alone. The machine uses
an AMD Turion 64 X2 cpu, and FC-6 -X86_64-DVD was used to load the OS.

Two types of problems were encountered. During gui install, the machine
would periodically hang and only a power down could allow recovery. The
hangs seemed to occur at random points in the boot process. I finally did a
text mode install and got things running, but had to boot in text mode and
then do a startx to bring up the gui. On about 1 out of 4 tries the machine
hung, with a blank screen. This feels like a timing problem similar to what
would ocur with overclocking, but this bios has no such adjustment
available.

Windows works fine. No problems have been noted. I am stumped and looking
for suggestions.

Thanks,
Shel

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