On 1/6/07, Charles Curley <charlescurley@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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I think you have at least two separate issues. A lot of updates could swamp an older machine, and you may have a display issue. Let me suggest you tackle them separately. I assume you are comfortable with the command line. It's possible that the updates will ameliorate the video problem. So try the kernel and update issues first. First, reboot without X at all. Use Grub (the boot loader) to append "init 3" to the kernel command line. Or change /etc/inittab to boot to run level 3. That defers the X issue while you do updates. Let us know if you need more details.
I tried this. When I went into the Grub menu, there were two options availible- One for the i585 and the other for the i686 kernel. I made the change to the command line, however it still went into X. This time it worked and I was dropped into X. It seems like I have two kernels on the machine at this point- and I am not sure that either are clean or fully installed. Either way, since it was booting into the UI now, I terminaled and tried to run "yum update". I was given an error that there was a lock. I rebooted- again attemting the init 3 instruction- this time I got a "exec of init () failed"... Followed by a Kernel Panic. I guess I am not following the instruction for this correctly. More information on how to get the boot into the command line would be helpful. Thank You, Hal
