Hello, Friendly Fedora Folks: My problem seems possibly related to some recently reported issues, but I'm unable to fit suggested solutions to my issue. Anyway, here goes: I have an Asus EeePC 900A. It predictably took me about 2.5 minutes to figure out that I wanted nothing at all to do with the crummy Linux distro that came with it. I wanted Fedora and thought I'd try out the Omega spin that Rahul announced recently. Now the 900A has only a 4GB flash chip for internal storage, so I started thinking of ways to reduce writes to the filesystem. It seemed to me that ext2 was a better fit than ext3 because there would be no need to write the journal data. During the install from LiveCD, I chose to format the entire 4GB as ext2 and mount it on /. No separate /boot partition, no swap partition. After install, I discovered that the root filesystem was ext3 despite my explicit instruction to format it as ext2. I consider that a bug, which I might pursue if I can get past my current predicament. I figured that "downgrading" to ext2 would not be difficult. So I changed ext3 to ext2 in fstab and added noatime to the options. Everything seems good at this point. I reboot, and mount tells me that the root filesystem is, indeed, ext2. After running through the installed packages and removing several that I thought would never be relevant to my limited hardware, I rebooted again and found everything good. Well, almost everything. It turns out that now I can yum update everything except for the kernel. After kernel update, I can't log in at all. I get to the gdm screen, enter username and password, and it just returns immediately to a fresh gdm screen. If I boot to runlevel 3, I have a similar symptom in text -- entering username and password just returns to the login prompt. At this point, I'm stuck. I've tried everything I know (not much) and I can't log in. I did take a snapshot of the system with dd just before upgrading the kernel, so I can always bring that back. But then I can never apply any kernel updates. Help! -Alan -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
