Messed up PCI Again

[Harold Hallikainen]

> On Sat, Dec 31, 2005 at 11:35:44AM -0800, Harold Hallikainen wrote:
>> I previously posted something about my HP laptop running FC4 suddenly
>> giving PCI conflict messages during boot, and those keeping my WLAN from
>> working. I fixed it by doing a re-install of FC4.
>>
>> Well, I did it again! Last night I let yum do a kernel update. I think
>> that's what did it, as now I'm getting those same messages. The wired
>> LAN
>> still works, so I have net access on the machine.
>>
>> How do I go back to a previous version of the kernel? RH8 used to ask me
>> during boot which version I wanted to boot. My installation of FC4
>> doesn't
>> do this.
>
> I think, in FC4 there is a new option in grub.conf called
> "hiddenmenu".  The way that works, when the GRUB screen comes up, it
> says something about booting kernel-<some_version> in N seconds.  The
> timeout is five seconds.  If you hit any key during that countdown,
> you will get the normal GRUB menu with the choice of however many
> kernels you have.
>
>> Is there some file I can edit to tell it to use a previous
>> version (if it's still there) or a way to re-install the previous
>> version?
>
> To go back to the usual GRUB menu, change this in
> /boot/grub/grub.conf:
>
>   timeout=5
>   splashimage=(hd0,0)/grub/splash.xpm.gz
>   hiddenmenu
>
> to
>
>   timeout=10
>   splashimage=(hd0,0)/grub/splash.xpm.gz
>   # hiddenmenu
>
> If you want the older kernel by default, change the "default"
> argument.  The kernel stanzas in grub.conf are numbered from 0, so you
> probably want to change
>
>   default=0
>
> to
>
>   default=1
>
>>
>> THANKS!
>>
>> Harold
>
> Happy New Year,
> --
> Bob McClure, Jr.             Bobcat Open Systems, Inc.
>

EXCELLENT! Actually, after posting my question, I DID notice that a menu
was available during boot (I just never watched it that closely, but there
is a hit any key to bring up the boot menu). I tried that and was able to
go back to the previous version, and the WLAN works again. I was also
digging through my Fedora Core Bible about configuring boot when your
email showed up with how to change the default. Works great!

THANKS!

Happy new year!

Harold

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