I restored my partition from a backed up disk image and everything's fine now. The entire operation took less than 10 minutes. :-) Francois Massonneau wrote: >Hello, > >This morning, yum updated automatically my system, and I saw it updated the >Xorg-X11 packages. >I shut down my computer without any pb, and this afternoon, I 've tried to >start my linux box, and it doesn't want ;-( > >It can boot using the FC4 install DVD rom, in rescue mode, but I can't make it >to work using the usual boot process. > >Grub comes fine, it begins to boot, the partitions are mounted, but when it >wants to display the little windows (now the boot process is graphical) that >shows the boot process, I have a fully colored screen, and nothing happen. I >have to power it off to shut it down. > >As only the xorg-x11 packages were updated, I suppose, this comes from them. > >Now I would like to be able to downgrade them, but I don't know how. > >I can boot from the install dvd, and boot in rescue mode, then >chroot /mnt/sysimage, but once there, what can I do ? >I have another computer where I can burn a dvd with the previous xorg-x11 >packages, but I don't know how to mount that dvd when I'm in rescue mode. >A "dmesg | grep hd" shows me that my dvd burner is "hdc", but when I type : >mount -t ext3 /dev/hdc /media/cdrecorder, I have always the same message : >"/dev/hdc doesn't exist", or something similar. > >Thank you for your help >Francois > > >
