one thing i noticed was your use of vga=0x31a, there is an easier method, use the decimal equivalent. http://www.linuxadvocate.net/fb jludwig said: > I have seen many really good hacks and many who love to play with this > Release and Linux in general. What I haven't seen is any real advice on > preemptive measures for error recovery. What do you do if you need only > one or two files to fix the system but you can't get them because your > system is down??? > One piece of advice I will give is this. If you have the hard drive > space, or even a old hard drive lying around, make yourself a backup > system. As seen below I have one (From my grub.conf) because I do screw > things. > title Fedora Core (2.4.24-1.ll.rhfc1.ccrma) > root (hd0,1) > kernel /vmlinuz-2.4.24-1.ll.rhfc1.ccrma ro root=LABEL=/1 > hdc=ide-scsi vga=0x31a > initrd /initrd-2.4.24-1.ll.rhfc1.ccrma.img > title Fedora Core (2.6.4) > root (hd0,1) > kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.4 ro root=LABEL=/1 vga=0x31a > initrd /initrd-2.6.4.img > title Fedora Core (2.4.22-1.2174.nptl) > root (hd0,1) > kernel /vmlinuz-2.4.22-1.2174.nptl ro root=LABEL=/1 hdc=ide-scsi > vga=0x31a > initrd /initrd-2.4.22-1.2174.nptl.img > title EMG Boot > root (hd0,0) > kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.20-20.9 ro root=/dev/hda3 /hdc=ide-scsi > vga=0x31a > initrd /initrd-2.4.20-20.9.img > > -- > jludwig <wralphie@xxxxxxxxxxx> > > > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list -+(duncan brown -+(duncanbrown@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx -+(http://www.linuxadvocate.net Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact. -- George Eliot