Re: Black page instead of login screen-Fedora2

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On Wed, 2005-02-16 at 01:44, powderkeg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> I gotta say, someone is NOT doing their testing very well. I just updated 
> Fedora2, and now I cant access the login screen. Just get a black screen 
> where the screen should be. What are my options. Cheers.
> 
> EDIT: I gotta add that this' the 2nd time this has happened after a YUM update 
> with Fedora2. Last time, I had to reinstall...won't be a happy camper if I 
> gotta do again..this happens when booting from any kernel...now coming to you 
> from Knoppix3.7
> 
> Fedora2
> 512mb
> 900 Athlon Thunderbird
> nVidia GForce2


Have you tried booting to run level 3?  That should get you to a text
based prompt.

Where you using the nvidia drivers or vesa?  If you were using the
nvidia drivers then you will need to reapply those drivers under the new
kernel.  

-- 
Scot L. Harris
webid@xxxxxxxxxx

Dealing with the problem of pure staff accumulation,
all our researches ... point to an average increase of 5.75% per year.
		-- C.N. Parkinson 


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