Cannot load Fedora

[TTIO]

Fedora (10) won't finish loading/booting. It gets right up to the point where all of the loading bars are at the end, and the name has turned white, but then stops and does nothing. I've left it for five minutes or so, and still no progress

Anyone know the problem?

I have a Wolvix USB, if I need to use any Linux only commands, but other than that I'm stuck on XP for the time being

[jayd512]

A little more info here... Are you trying to install Fedora? Or is it installed already?
USB installation or HDD?

[TTIO]

Already installed, to HDD.

I've been using it for a while, the only major update I did on it before it stopped was installing KDE. Even then, I booted it 2 or 3 times before it stopped working...

[jayd512]

I had something similar happen after doing

yum update

Drop in the installation DVD and choose the option to 'Repair' the installation. After booting up, see if you can get the output of

lspci | grep video
dmesg | grep video

[TTIO]

Gave:

[liveuser@localhost ~]$ lspci | grep video
[liveuser@localhost ~]$ dmesg | grep video
pci 0000:07:00.0: Boot video device

Since lspci didn't return anything at all, I tried it without the '| grep video' bit. That came up with:

[liveuser@localhost ~]$ lspci
00:00.0 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation MCP55 Memory Controller (rev a1)
00:01.0 ISA bridge: nVidia Corporation MCP55 LPC Bridge (rev a2)
00:01.1 SMBus: nVidia Corporation MCP55 SMBus (rev a2)
00:01.2 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation MCP55 Memory Controller (rev a2)
00:02.0 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation MCP55 USB Controller (rev a1)
00:02.1 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation MCP55 USB Controller (rev a2)
00:04.0 IDE interface: nVidia Corporation MCP55 IDE (rev a1)
00:05.0 IDE interface: nVidia Corporation MCP55 SATA Controller (rev a2)
00:05.1 IDE interface: nVidia Corporation MCP55 SATA Controller (rev a2)
00:05.2 IDE interface: nVidia Corporation MCP55 SATA Controller (rev a2)
00:06.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation MCP55 PCI bridge (rev a2)
00:06.1 Audio device: nVidia Corporation MCP55 High Definition Audio (rev a2)
00:08.0 Bridge: nVidia Corporation MCP55 Ethernet (rev a2)
00:09.0 Bridge: nVidia Corporation MCP55 Ethernet (rev a2)
00:0a.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation MCP55 PCI Express bridge (rev a2)
00:0b.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation MCP55 PCI Express bridge (rev a2)
00:0c.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation MCP55 PCI Express bridge (rev a2)
00:0d.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation MCP55 PCI Express bridge (rev a2)
00:0e.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation MCP55 PCI Express bridge (rev a2)
00:0f.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation MCP55 PCI Express bridge (rev a2)
00:18.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] HyperTransport Technology Configuration
00:18.1 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Address Map
00:18.2 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] DRAM Controller
00:18.3 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Miscellaneous Control
01:0b.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Texas Instruments TSB43AB22/A IEEE-1394a-2000 Controller (PHY/Link)
07:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation G70 [GeForce 7600 GT] (rev a1)

[devils casper]

Press Alt+Ctrl+F2 or boot up in Single User Mode. Add Driver "vesa" in xorg.conf file.

su -
nano /etc/X11/xorg.conf

Add this :

Section "Device"
	Identifier	"Configured Video Device"
	Driver		"vesa"
EndSection

Press Ctrl+X, Y and hit Enter key to save file.
Execute shutdown -r now to reboot machine.

[TTIO]

Single user mode goes really wierd... Firstly it complains about one of my partitions , says to run fsck (which it then doesn't recognise as a command), and then it doesn't accept any commands I try to give it.

Also, on a side note, it only accepts every second keypress as input. The rest it ignores...

EDIT: Alternatively, if anyone knows how to get Windows to recognise the partitions, I could always edit the file through there. Currently it recognises that the partitions are there, but it doesn't see any data on them. Claims they're not formatted (I already have the ext2fs drivers).