Kernel Update

Tom Diehl tdiehl at rogueind.com
Thu May 4 09:29:42 UTC 2006


On Wed, 3 May 2006, jdow wrote:

> From: "Steve Croteau" <stevecroteau at comcast.net>
> >
> > Peter Gordon wrote:
> > Steve Croteau wrote:
> >  Greetings,
> > I just installed FC5 a couple of days ago on my wife's computer (clean
> > install from FC3).  Today I updated the kernel to 2.6.16-1.2107_FC5.i686
> > and now the box won't boot.  When I do a hard reboot and select the
> > original kernel, it's just fine.  Any ideas?  Thanks in advance.
> >
> > 2.6.16-1.2107_FC5 seems to have broken a lot of stuff for people
> > (graphical boot, networking for some, CUPS/printing for me, et al.)
> >
> > Reverting to version 2.6.16-1.2069_FC5 is probably the least hassle-free
> > way to resolve these at the moment.
> >
> >
> > Thank you!  Is there and easy way to get the original kernel to boot instead of 
> > defaulting to the new one?
> 
> It's all in "info grub" if you can figure any of that gibberish out.
> (When is SOMEBODY going to make that trash readable, anyway.)

Use pinfo grub instead. At least then things are readable.

Regards,

Tom Diehl		tdiehl at rogueind.com		Spamtrap address mtd123 at rogueind.com




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