Black page instead of login screen-Fedora2
Scot L. Harris
webid at cfl.rr.com
Tue Feb 15 16:50:19 UTC 2005
On Wed, 2005-02-16 at 01:44, powderkeg at snow.email.ne.jp wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I gotta say, someone is NOT doing their testing very well. I just updated
> Fedora2, and now I cant access the login screen. Just get a black screen
> where the screen should be. What are my options. Cheers.
>
> EDIT: I gotta add that this' the 2nd time this has happened after a YUM update
> with Fedora2. Last time, I had to reinstall...won't be a happy camper if I
> gotta do again..this happens when booting from any kernel...now coming to you
> from Knoppix3.7
>
> Fedora2
> 512mb
> 900 Athlon Thunderbird
> nVidia GForce2
Have you tried booting to run level 3? That should get you to a text
based prompt.
Where you using the nvidia drivers or vesa? If you were using the
nvidia drivers then you will need to reapply those drivers under the new
kernel.
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Scot L. Harris
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