You might want to edit /etc/grub.conf in rescue and remove "quiet" and "rhgb" and add "rdinit rd_NO_PLYMOUTH" to the Kernel command line. On Wednesday, July 21, 2010, Vincent Onelli <vonelli@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> From: "Darr" <darr@xxxxxxxx> > >> >> Hmmmm... if grub's boot menu never appears, how do you know >> >> there's only 1 kernel listed in it? >> >> >> >> If grub's boot menu never appears, how do you choose to run >> >> windows or fedora? >> >> >> > By looking in the directory /lib/modules, while I am in the command >> >> Just because there is only one subdirectory in /lib/modules doesn't >> mean there is (or was, now) only one kernel listed in the boot menu. >> >> >> > line in rescue mode. After reinstall again I now have in this >> > directory only 2.6.33.3-85.fc13.i.686.PAE if run dracut it >> > doesn't find because the PAE extension. >> >> So you reinstalled, but it still won't boot from the initial >> kernel that anaconda gives you. What messages do >> you see when you remove the rhgb and quiet from >> the kernel arguments at boot time? >> i.e. we don't know that the initramfs file is bad... >> that was something someone said *could* be wrong. >> >> Still, if you've convinced yourself that's the problem and want to >> remake that file system, just don't use the $(uname -r) variable. >> Run e.g. >> # mv /boot/initramfs-2.6.33.3-85.fc13.i.686.PAE.img >> /boot/initramfs-2.6.33.3-85.fc13.i.686.PAE.img.old >> >> # dracut /boot/initramfs-2.6.33.3-85.fc13.i.686.PAE.img >> 2.6.33.3-85.fc13.i.686.PAE > dracut ran OK > rebooted, still no change >> >> instead (both of those commands should be single lines that >> begin with the root-access prompt '#'... the email programs wrap >> them at arbitrary lengths... typically between 65 and 72 characters in >> length). >> >> The first command 'moves' the original file to having the >> extension "old" so you can compare it to the new one >> after it's created by the second command. >> >> What size is the current /boot/initramfs-2.6.33.3-85.fc13.i.686.PAE.img >> file, by the way? >> > The new 11883506 > The old 11883371 > > -- > 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 > -- 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
