After Update My FC5 get BLANK SCREEN.

[Jim Cornette]

Ivan Evstegneev wrote:
> Hello Jim,
> 
> the problem is that I have no old kernel line in my GRUB loader only
> the new one is appeared...
> 
The availability of only one kernel will limit you trying another kernel.

Have you pressed a key to see the menu, highlight your kernel, press the 
a key to get into append mode?
When you are in append mode, backspace out the rhgb and quiet entries 
and then press the enter key after removing the lines from the grub boot 
line. I previously said the a key and noted my mistake after sending the 
email.
Anyway, if rhgb is causing the problem, you will be able to boot. You 
may blank out at the GUI loading or you might see some message while 
booting about what is happening.
If you fail once you hit the GUI still, you could boot into runlevel 3 
by repeating the steps mentioned above by adding a space followed by the 
number 3 on the boot line. Once in runlevel 3, you could log onto the 
terminal as root and run
system-config-display --reconfig
to see if you can reconfigure X with the program.
If that fails, you might try running
yum -y update
while you are in runlevel 3 in order to pull in later updates which 
could fix your problem. Then reboot your computer to see if X startx. 
There has to be at least another kernel newer thsn the one that you have 
installed. After a successful update, you should have two kernels 
showing in grub.

If you can't get this far, a reinstall is probably the easiest. The next 
time that you run yum to update your computer, do it from a root 
terminal so X does not restart on you and kill yum and all other 
programs running off of the GUI layer. (I was hit once by X respawning 
when yum was running in a gnome-terminal)

Jim


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