Sorry for the top reply - on my iPad. I'm disappointed there isn't more diagnostic tools and self repairing tools. I'd have expected that I could have run something that would tell me what was wrong and ask if I would allow the tool to repair. William On Aug 14, 2012, at 1:09 PM, "Steven Grunza" <sgrunza@xxxxxxxx> wrote: >> -----Original Message----- >> From: William Henry [mailto:whenry@xxxxxxxxxx] >> Sent: Tuesday, August 14, 2012 3:03 PM >> To: William Henry >> Cc: Steven Grunza; laptop >> Subject: Re: Last weeks F17 updates and problems with booting >> >> Tried it and felt I was getting close. But then I hit other issues >> trying to get things back. >> >> Downloaded the DVD ISO to reinstall from fedora project and that >> failed. Got pushed into dracut (?). Not sure why that image doesn't >> work for me. >> >> So then I went live cd and that worked. I installed from there. And >> currently resorting the backup of my home dir. >> >> So I basically gave up and reinstalled. Wasted several days. Very >> disappointed. >> >> Thanks for you help guys. The effort was much appreciated. >> >> William >> > I almost went the same path except my problem was in the ACPI code. An > update had the nasty side effect of turning the CPU fan on full speed > all the time. About a week before I was going to have an opportunity to > re-image and switch to a different OS another update fixed the issue. > Fedora is awesome when it works but when it gets broken it can be really > difficult to fix... > > _______________________________________________ laptop mailing list laptop@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/laptop
