On Thu, 2005-07-14 at 21:54 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Thursday 14 July 2005 21:22, Dave Jones wrote: > >On Thu, Jul 14, 2005 at 08:41:03PM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > > > The real question seems to me, how did this new kernel get past > > > testing if it won't even boot? Thats now > > > vmlinuz-2.6.12-1.1390_FC4, the matching initrd, System.map etc. > > > The .1-1369 seems to be ok if I don't want to run X. > > > >The revelation this week seems to be that the livna nvidia rpm broke > >modprobe.conf on a number of installations. Did you have this > > installed by any chance ? > > What would be the full name of that rpm? There is not a livna entry > in any of the files in /etc/yum.repos.d if that helps. They are > exactly as installed. > > This is an nvidia card, a 5200 something with 128 megs of ram. From an > lspci: > > 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV34 [GeForce FX > 5200] (rev a1) That's almost the same one I have on my notebook: 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV34M [GeForce FX Go5200] (rev a1) I am currently using these 2 nvidia kernel-modules on this notebook: kernel-module-nvidia-2.6.12-1.1390_FC4-1.0.7174-0.lvn.4.4 kernel-module-nvidia-2.6.11-1.1369_FC4-1.0.7174-0.lvn.4.4 [Two kernels installed in parallel because of https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=16234 which also hits me on this notebook.] > I posted a verbatum copy of the screen in a previous message, the > error is output immediately after the 'booting the kernel' message. > The language is a bit obtuse, but I believe its because it cannot > find the hard drive(s) once the vmlinuz file is loaded and the exec > begun. Something about unknown_*****(0,0) to be inexact. Dave could be right, initrd is a hot candidate for the origin of your problems. Besides this, I would suspect you to suffer from the same issue I have with this NVidia chip: It doesn't work with xorg's "nv" driver, it only works with the "nvidia" driver. So, X not coming up with 1390_FC4 also could be an indication of X not finding the nvidia kernel module corresponding to this kernel. rpm -qa 'kernel-*' should tell you if you have installed it. Ralf
