On Wed, 2009-05-06 at 14:49 -0700, jackson byers wrote: > Craig responded: > Either... > > A. let it boot up until the screen disappears... > press <Control><Alt><F2> > > or > > B. Press a key at the grub prompt and highlight the kernel with the > arrow keys and press the letter 'e', move down to the kernel line and > press the letter 'e'. Add a space and put in the number "3" to tell it > to boot to runlevel 3 > --------------------------- > jbyers: > A. did not work, all it does is recover a blinking white dash, > no response to keyboard > > B. I got partway thru this, i think including adding "3", then I did > something wrong > left with > grub> > I wasnt clear at this point put in "boot" > got many error msgs > > I finally went back to my fc5 and put a space and a "3" at end of kernel line > in the f10 grub.conf. > This got me to login > > I will try > yum update mkinitrd > yum update > > later today; I need my fc5 right now. ---- well, it won't do you any good since you are not getting past grub at this point, I would probably... boot the Install DVD, put the kernel argument into the boot command... linux install scsi_mod.scan=sync and then re-install Fedora 10 by removing /dev/sda1 and perhaps making /dev/sda1 about 200 megabytes for just /boot and then /dev/sda4 for / At least if you boot the DVD with the scsi_mod.scan=sync kernel parameter, when it installs the kernel and builds your initrd, it will build it with that parameter already. Craig -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
