On Mon, 2004-08-16 at 15:06, Pa2U wrote: > Greetings all > > I used to run RHL7.3, dual booting, on a Sony Vaio laptop. When I > tried to upgrade to FC1 I seemed to be successful except that quite a > few apps and utils on the GUI did absolutely nothing when I clicked > them. When I tried to "fix" such anomalies by updating (via up2date) > I really shot myself in the foot, it seems. Things went from bad to > worse so I tried to reinstall FC1 from the CDs (which check OK by > media check). Although that install went without hitch, bootup now > ends up with only a mouse pointer on a blank screen. The pointer > moves, over the entire screen, at least. Unfortunately, that will > only amuse me for 30 to 40 minutes at a stretch. I really should > expand my horizons and search for more, don't you agree? > > <Ctrl><Alt><F##> does nothing, and my MCSE training has left me ill > prepared for real computer diagnosis that I now need. I don't even > know how to force a boot into text mode, much less how to figure out > where my Xwindows config went wrong (as it used to work, and I can > still find my old files on the HD). > > Now that I let the cat out of the bag regarding my perspective of > experience I will expect the (perhaps deserved) hazing for ever having > had any affiliation w/ Big Bill, but that's another story. Can any > compassionate soul out there point me in a reasonable direction to > diagnose this and get back in operational mode, please and thank > you??? > What about booting from the Fedora rescue CD and mounting the partitions and scping the data off to another machine on the network. Then a fresh install to start anew?
