Daniel J Walsh wrote > You can boot with selinux=0 or enforcing=0. enforcing=0 means that > SELinux will block nothing, but maintain the labeling. 1) selinux=0 worked; booted up into my backup f12, looks good. 2) next tried rebooting with enforcing=0 This was more difficult; the boot process got into relabeling wtth a warning it would take long time. I walked away from the screen maybe 20minutes into the relabeling and when I got back (maybe at 30min time), it had rebooted on its own, but into my main f12. Rebooted yet again into the "enforcing=0" stanza of my backup f12, and it came up this time into my backup f12, with no further relabeling message, so all looks ok here too. This was a good learning exerience. But I must say I am still mostly ignorant of what SELinux is doing, why I needed either selinux=0, enforcing=0, in the first place, and in particular the "what/why/how" of this relabeling business. I have spent some time, not a lot, on googling SELinux, relabeling, and I am getting lost in the detail. thanks for showing me the ropes re selinux=0, enforcing=0 Jack -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines