Rawhide Update on Fedora 10 Breaks Boot

Mon May 4 04:00:01 UTC 2009

On Mon, May 04, 2009 at 01:48:28 +0100,
  Keiran Smith <affix at FedoraProject.org> wrote:
> Hey,
>   I upgraded my system using
> 
> yum --disablerepo=* --enablerepo=rawhide upgrade -y
> 
> After I restarted my system The boot screen would freeze and refuse to boot
> the system. I had no error. After numerous attempts to recover my system I
> had to re-install fedora from disk.

What kind of video card do you have?

Did you try booting with the nomodeset kernel parameter?

(I have similar symptoms with my ATI 9200 when I don't use nomodeset.
The system eventually boots into X, but the screen is black until X starts
and vt's don't work. With nomodeset things work fine.)