FC4 can't boot after updates
Matthew Saltzman
mjs at ces.clemson.edu
Mon Aug 1 11:14:26 UTC 2005
On Sun, 31 Jul 2005, Claude Jones wrote:
> A friend has just been possibly bit by the bug that emerged after a recent
> kernel update. I read Thomas Chung's piece in the recent FedoraNews about
> this, but he stresses that the workaround of running Kudzu to fix
> modprobe.conf has to occur BEFORE the kernel update. Has anyone been able to
> fix a system after the fact?
You still have the old kernel. When you see the startup splash screen on
bootup, press a key. That takes you to a menu of kernels. Choose the
second-most recent option.
Then rpm -e the new kernel, run kudzu, and reinstall the new kernel.
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Matthew Saltzman
Clemson University Math Sciences
mjs AT clemson DOT edu
http://www.math.clemson.edu/~mjs
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