Fedora Core Five Borked!

[Harold Hallikainen]

> My FC5 system died. It won't boot. It gets to a line that says:
>
> device-mapper: 4.6.0-ioctl (2006-02-17) initialised: dm-devel at redhat.com
>
> and just hangs. The system has mirrored sata_sil disks, with a couple IDE
> disks and a DVD/RW drive.
>
> Apparently, from my testing and messing around, it's after a nightly yum
> update that the system quit booting. I reinstalled twice now. The sytem
> rebooted and worked fine, then I did
>
> yum update
>
> which updated over 600 packages and the system wouldn't boot the next time
> I
> tried to reboot. So, this time I haven't updated it and it's booted
> several
> times just fine. I think I'll go ahead and let it update, then not shut it
> down until a few more updates of things... I did find a google (one hit)
> that
> stated something about using devel repos. There's one for fedora, which
> I've
> renamed and I suspect that might be my problem, so may do an update
> without
> those enabled.
>
> So, what's the general concensus, if any, on this issue?
>
> TIA,
>
> Karl


I earlier posted a question asking about a Linux equivalent of Norton
Ghost (thanks for the responses!). Instead of patiently waiting for
responses and saving an image of the hard drive in my laptop, I went ahead
and tried an FC5 update. After the install, it complained about some PCI
problem (I had problems like this previously with kernel updates) and it
would not run the X server. I could not "update" back to FC4, so I'm now
doing a fresh install. So... guess it doesn't work with everything! This
is an HP Athalon laptop.

Harold

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