Craig responded: Either... A. let it boot up until the screen disappears... press <Control><Alt><F2> or B. Press a key at the grub prompt and highlight the kernel with the arrow keys and press the letter 'e', move down to the kernel line and press the letter 'e'. Add a space and put in the number "3" to tell it to boot to runlevel 3 --------------------------- jbyers: A. did not work, all it does is recover a blinking white dash, no response to keyboard B. I got partway thru this, i think including adding "3", then I did something wrong left with grub> I wasnt clear at this point put in "boot" got many error msgs I finally went back to my fc5 and put a space and a "3" at end of kernel line in the f10 grub.conf. This got me to login I will try yum update mkinitrd yum update later today; I need my fc5 right now. Jack -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines