The old kernel works fine. The new kernel seems to hang after setting up
swap space.
From: Paul Howarth <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Reply-To: For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx>
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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