On Mon, 21 Dec 2009 18:35:30 -0500 Frank Hale <frankhale@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > the kernel went to core my system would no longer boot. It would start > to boot half way then just go dead. I don't have any error messages to > post because the screen went blank. Grub was working fine as far as I > can tell. if you had a ati card with KMS enabled, try to add "nomodeset" to the kernel line in grub. -- Ian-Xue Li <da.mi.spirit@xxxxxxxxx>