Boot failure after update

[Chris Birchenhall]

The old kernel works fine. The new kernel seems to hang after setting up 
swap space.

>From: Paul Howarth <paul at city-fan.org>
>Reply-To: For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list at redhat.com>
>To: For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list at redhat.com>
>Subject: Re: Boot failure after update
>Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2005 12:50:14 +0000
>
>Chris Birchenhall wrote:
>>Hi guys. I have successfully loaded Core 3 onto two machines. All went 
>>very smoothly until I updated on my Sony desktop. After the first update 
>>(kernel and kernel-utils) the system hung during boot up. Fearful I had 
>>done something silly I did a clean rebuild. Again went smoothly until I 
>>updated; same problem, system  hung during boot up. Any clues why I am 
>>having this problem? Chris
>
>Updating a kernel will, by default, leave the original kernel in place so 
>that you can still boot using it in the event of a problem with the new 
>kernel. You have to press some key during the boot-up process (I forget 
>which one, but you are prompted to press it to enter the grub menu IIRC), 
>at which point you should get a menu of the two kernels to boot from. Just 
>select the older one with the up/down arrow keys and press enter to boot 
>it.
>
>So did the update break both kernels or just the new one?
>
>Paul.
>
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