Re: FC4 can't boot after updates

[Matthew Saltzman <mjs ces clemson edu>]

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
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