Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: >> I ran preupgrade-cli on my F-8 machine, choosing F-10 to upgrade to. >> This worked fine, finding some 800 packages to update. >> But when it ended and I re-booted, >> the upgrade system failed at the graphics stage. >> >> After various failed attempts, I got the new system to install >> by using Knoppix to change >> the level 5 setting in /etc/inittab to 3 (text mode). >> by appending "xdriver=vesa" to the kernel line. > > You can edit the Grub entry for one boot and boot into run level 3 > with out having to go this route. This has been covered here may > times, and if covered in the Grub info page. Look for "Editing a > menu entry". Well, I had to use Knoppix or something like it to get into the machine at all, so I am not sure editing the grub entry would have been any easier. Preupgrade, incidentally, removed all grub entries except its own and Windows XP; it almost seems prejudiced against Linux. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
