Kernel Update

jdow jdow at earthlink.net
Thu May 4 03:06:40 UTC 2006


From: "Steve Croteau" <stevecroteau at comcast.net>
>
> Peter Gordon wrote:
> Steve Croteau wrote:
>  Greetings,
> I just installed FC5 a couple of days ago on my wife's computer (clean
> install from FC3).  Today I updated the kernel to 2.6.16-1.2107_FC5.i686
> and now the box won't boot.  When I do a hard reboot and select the
> original kernel, it's just fine.  Any ideas?  Thanks in advance.
>
> 2.6.16-1.2107_FC5 seems to have broken a lot of stuff for people
> (graphical boot, networking for some, CUPS/printing for me, et al.)
>
> Reverting to version 2.6.16-1.2069_FC5 is probably the least hassle-free
> way to resolve these at the moment.
>
>
> Thank you!  Is there and easy way to get the original kernel to boot instead of 
> defaulting to the new one?

It's all in "info grub" if you can figure any of that gibberish out.
(When is SOMEBODY going to make that trash readable, anyway.)

I just go in to /boot/grub/grub.conf and make what appear to be some
obvious edits.

{^_^} 




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