On Sun, 2007-01-07 at 13:43 -0500, Hal Levy wrote: > Since I had done nothing of intrest with my FC6 install- I have > decided to start again, as my tinkering seems to have made things > worse. > > I have a fresh install runing right now. > > I would like to know how to boot to comand line, however. I'd like to > run the YUM update without X the first time. When I installed FC5 to my older machine, and used text-install, I was put into level 3 when I first booted and had to later edit /etc/inittab to set the default boot level to 5. Here's the fun part. If you're going to install FC6 that kernel problem was part of the install process, noted as a bug and got hashed over quite a bit on this list in the beginning. So it was awhile ago, but not in distant past. Just delete using rpm -e --nodeps kernel kernel-headers kernel-devel. Then yum -y install kernel* which should work. If I got this wrong, someone correct me please. I think the kernel was the one installed i686 and the headers i586, killing them both off and re-installing was the answer I think. Ric -- ================================================ My father, Victor Moore (Vic) used to say: "There are two Great Sins in the world... ..the Sin of Ignorance, and the Sin of Stupidity. Only the former may be overcome." R.I.P. Dad. Linux user# 44256 Sign up at: http://counter.li.org/ http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/oar http://www.wayward4now.net ================================================