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<DIV>Hi,</DIV>
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<DIV>Ok, I'm on a steep learning curve here but I think I'm learning fast!</DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I tried following your suggestions below
but:</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV>> Well, you've got a long way. Turning off sendmail should have no
effect,<BR>> as you'd expect.</DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Noticed that, turned back on sendmail and corrected
the System Time which is what was causing it to groan in the first place. Now
error there is gone.</FONT></DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT><FONT face=Arial
size=2></FONT>
<DIV><BR>> <BR>> Terminology: the "Fedora navy screen" is also known as
the Grub menu. In<BR>> it, highlight the Fedora kernel and press "e" to edit
it. Delete "rhgb"<BR>> and "quiet" from the line beginning "kernel", and put
a " 3" there. That<BR>> should boot you into text mode.<BR><FONT face=Arial
size=2>I looked this up but the lines in my Grub screen are:</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>================== BELOW THIS LINE
==================</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>root (hd0,0)</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.9-1.667 ro
root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>initrd /initrd-2.6.9-1.667.img</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>================== ABOVE THIS
LINE ==================</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>So no mention of "rhgb" or "quiet"!</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>To get in to command line I do:</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>c (for command line)</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>boot (gives error message about kernel, but bring
me to black grub screen!)</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><ESC> (brings back to Grub menu but in
black!)</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><ENTER> (boots to command line)</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Run level is set to 3 already (in inittab). The
first line reads: </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>id:3:initdefault:</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Why is this not causing it to boot to command
line?</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV>> <BR>> Then run<BR>> system-config-display --reconfig<BR>> as
root.<BR>> <BR><FONT face=Arial size=2>My system does not appear to have a
"system-config-display". When I type sys<TAB> it is not one of the
system-config-XXX listed!</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV>> Hope this helps,<BR>> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Every little bit helps at this level!!</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT><BR>>
James.<BR><FONT face=Arial size=2>Andoni.</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>