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Topic: Fedora 14 boot hangs after resize, boot to Vista solves the hang!

I moved right the /var partition of my Fedora 14 system using Gparted Live CD version 0.8.0-3. Everything went fine in Gparted.

But when I boot my Fedora 14, boot hangs after starting udev and setting host name to localhost.localdomain. It just hangs there. If I press the [Caps Lock] key, it toggles the Caps Lock LED.

If I boot the Fedora 14 installation DVD in Rescue mode, it mounts all partitions without problems, and the data is there.

I have found a surprising solution to this problem. I have dual-boot to Fedora 14 and Vista, and when I booted to Vista and then back to Fedora 14, it was able to boot successfully!

Encouraged by this, I resized the root partition as well with Gparted live CD. I could not boot directly to Fedora 14 this time either. But after I booted to Vista, I could boot my Fedora 14 again!

Can anybody explain how Vista can fix a Fedora 14 boot problem???

Note that I have not touched my /boot partition in any way. I have touched the /var and / partitions only.

By the way, I have successfully adjusted partition sizes with Gparted for two other computers.

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Re: Fedora 14 boot hangs after resize, boot to Vista solves the hang!

Which boot loader are you using to boot Vista and Fedora 14?

If you are using a Microsoft Windows boot loader, then this might make sense, though at the moment I do not understand why booting Vista would fix a boot problem related to resizing /var.

If you are using GRUB, GRUB2, or LILO, then this is certainly a mystery.

3 Reply by JuhaniJaakola

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Re: Fedora 14 boot hangs after resize, boot to Vista solves the hang!

gedakc wrote:

Which boot loader are you using to boot Vista and Fedora 14?

I'm using GRUB of Fedora 14.

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Re: Fedora 14 boot hangs after resize, boot to Vista solves the hang!

Wow, that is certainly a mystery to me how booting into Vista fixed the problem booting into Fedora.

The boot process in GRUB usually gets broken when one moves the start of the stage1 file contained in the /boot directory.  Resizing the /var partition should not even affect booting via GRUB.  The GRUB stage1 problem is described in the GParted FAQ.