system crash

[Rich Thompson]

When your system comes up into grub, press e to edit the config. Remove 
the /rhgb from the kernel line and add "nogui" without the quotes to 
that line. Press return to save that line change and b to boot from that 
temporary edit.

I had the same issue and this process worked for me. Since this happened 
late last night for me, I have not had time to figure out what is happening.

Bartolomeus Irwanto wrote:
> May be you can try to boot from Fedora CD and type
> 'linux rescue' to see what happens in your system.
> Hope it helps.
> 
> Bartolomeus
> 
> --- Richard Ayer III <rwa1 at cec.wustl.edu> wrote:
> 
>>I hate to make a post like this, but I'm totally
>>confused.
>>
>>I've been using FC2T1 since it came out; until now
>>the only real problem I'd run into was X crashing
>>due to psaux.
>>But, today I downloaded kernel version 2.6.3-1.106
>>as well as about 500 other updates (I had already
>>downloaded all of the XFree86 updates the day before
>>and had no problems). But now I cannot boot the
>>system with any version of the kernel. The X server
>>starts up, but the screen just turns black with the
>>'X' cursor. Then I press Ctrl-Alt-F1 to get to the
>>login screen, and the system is hanging just after
>>the step where the swap space is activated/mounted.
>>So, I can never anywhere near a login prompt to try
>>to diagnose the problem.  One other thing: when I
>>downloaded all of those updates, I did it in two
>>groups; the first group had the kernel updates, all
>>lib* updates, and I think systembase (something like
>>that), and the second group was everything else.
>>When I started up2date for the second group, it
>>couldn't show the little pictures on the 'forward',
>>'back', and 'cancel' buttons (the blue arrows and
>>red X). Then I restarted gkrellm and it said that it
>>could load some .png files. So I reinstalled libpng
>>(I think version 1.2.5) and logged out of KDE. The X
>>server wouldn't start and give me the blue login
>>screen; so I rebooted, and haven't been able to get
>>into Linux since.
>>
>>If anyone sees any of the symptoms I've mentioned or
>>has any ideas, I would greatly appreciate any help I
>>can get.
>>
>>TIA,
>>Richard Ayer III
> 
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