How to recover from blue screen after bootup?

[Tom Mitchell]

On Sat, Apr 03, 2004 at 09:48:26PM -0500, Williams Jr, Ernest L. wrote:

> After upgrading from Fedora Core 1 with the 2.6.4-1.257 kernel, to
> FC2T2 the system hangs following hardware discovery.
>  
> More specifically:
> 1. Checking for new hardware
> 2. Flashes to kudzu for ½ a second
> 3. Flashes to a blue screen with funny characters.
> 4. System is frozen.

> Can anyone tell me how to recover?  Is there a boot option I can
> select to work-around?

I would guess that the X server is not happy.
At the point you are looking at the blue
screen with funny characters invoke one of
the TTY login sessions at the console.
Example these three keys at once.

    Ctl+Alt+F2

You should see a login prompt.  Login as
root and type "telinit 3".

Next review the configuration of your gfx card and 
get it in order.

Since 257 is a bout four updates back you may wish to do a text bases
update with yum or up2date then fix the x server.  If I recall 257 was
about the same time that the X server switched so you may need to
check the archives on how to switch from the XFree86 to the Xorg
version.  You may have to issue a yum/up2date command to update or
install xorg-x11 so you pick most of these guys up.

    xorg-x11-Mesa-libGL-0.6.6-0.2004_03_30.1
    xorg-x11-xfs-0.6.6-0.2004_03_30.1
    xorg-x11-100dpi-fonts-0.6.6-0.2004_03_30.1
    xorg-x11-Mesa-libGLU-0.6.6-0.2004_03_30.1
    xorg-x11-0.6.6-0.2004_03_30.1
    xorg-x11-libs-0.6.6-0.2004_03_30.1
    xorg-x11-font-utils-0.6.6-0.2004_03_30.1
    xorg-x11-base-fonts-0.6.6-0.2004_03_30.1
    xorg-x11-syriac-fonts-0.6.6-0.2004_03_30.1
    xorg-x11-truetype-fonts-0.6.6-0.2004_03_30.1
    xorg-x11-devel-0.6.6-0.2004_03_30.1
    xorg-x11-libs-data-0.6.6-0.2004_03_30.1
    xorg-x11-twm-0.6.6-0.2004_03_30.1
    xorg-x11-xauth-0.6.6-0.2004_03_30.1
    xorg-x11-tools-0.6.6-0.2004_03_30.1


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