That's very odd. Maybe the grub2.cfg file had something that got commented out? On 3/23/14, Arthur Dent <misc.lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hello all, > > For reasons I won't bore you with I am stuck on F17 for the moment (At > Easter I have some time off and intend to upgrade then). > > I had left the kernel on 3.8.13-100FC17 which worked just fine, but had > to install some packages this weekend and allowed the kernel to update > too. Now when I first rebooted I got an error: > Cannot open font file True > Welcome to emergency mode. Use "systemctl default" or ^D to enter > default mode. > > I followed some tutorials I found which indicated changing > "SYSFONT=True" to "SYSFONT=latarcyrheb-sun16" and running > grub2-mkconfig -o /boot/grub2/grub.cfg > > This I did, and now the "Cannot open font file True" message is gone, > but it still fails to boot, giving me: > Welcome to emergency mode. Use "systemctl default" or ^D to enter > default mode. > Give root password for maintenance > (or type Control-D to continue) > > I tried to boot into my previous - working - kernel, but no joy - same > message. > > This machine is my mail server so I would really appreciate some help! > > Thanks in advance > > Mark > > > -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org