On Wed, Dec 31, 2008 at 11:19 AM, Robert Moskowitz <rgm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > David Burns wrote: >> >> On Wed, Dec 31, 2008 at 9:28 AM, Robert Moskowitz <rgm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> >> wrote: >> >>> >>> I do notice that when iptables is starting there is some message about >>> time >>> being off. But I can't catch it, it scrolls by too fast. >>> >> >> Do control-s and q work during boot? > > When do those play in? > cntl > s and q seemed to do nothing. > So what should ctrl-s and q do? I was hoping control-s would stop the screen so you could read the iptables message. Seems to me I have done that before, but not recently. Maybe it no longer works. >What is prefdm? prefdm is trying to launch a desktop manager, I think. Have you tried booting into text mode or single user? Adding a 3 to the end of the kernel line will put you in text mode, I think. If X is your problem, that would work around it. Dave -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
