I went to upgrade my Ubuntu PC last week and it won't. So Fedora 13 is not on the cards (I have been seriously thinking of trying Fedora again after some time...) Don't yet know what the problem is but it won't boot, it gives variously kernel panic messages or simply unable to boot from drive and that's both the DVD for a live disk and the hard drive. I suspect a dodgy stick of RAM.

On 26 May 2010 11:08, Tom Hill <tom(a)ninjabadger.net&gt; wrote: > Quoting Kevanf1 <kevanf1(a)gmail.com&gt;: > >> I went to upgrade my Ubuntu PC last week and it won't.  So Fedora 13 >> is not on the cards (I have been seriously thinking of trying Fedora >> again after some time...)  Don't yet know what the problem is but it >> won't boot, it gives variously kernel panic messages or simply unable >> to boot from drive and that's both the DVD for a live disk and the >> hard drive.  I suspect a dodgy stick of RAM. > > Ubuntu won't boot or Fedora? Confusing much! > > You have memtest on the Ubuntu boot discs, so at least that mystery > can be addressed. > > Tom > Sorry Tom. What I meant was firstly I can't upgrade Ubuntu so installing Fedora is off the cards at the moment. I would have tried that with a different HDD. I have loads of copies of Memtest on various distro's and very, very useful it has been in the past. Trouble is Memtest also runs in its own bootable environment. Nothing will boot from this PC at the current time. I suspect memory but am unable to check it. So, it's going to be a case of unplugging each stick in turn to see which one (if any) are actually at fault. If it ain't RAM then it could be the CPU but I doubt that.