On Sat, Nov 21, 2009 at 06:04:28PM -0800, Rob Healey wrote: > > On kernels 2.6.32-0.48* and kerenl-2.6.32-0.51*, I can install > them, and then booting is what the problem comes in. It gives me > the three color chasing bar, and it completes its cycle just > fine. It then flips to a black screen with a flashing underline > and nothing else. I was wondering if it just needed some time to > time out some bugs, but nothing more than the black screen... > > I know that my system is not hard locked up because I can press > [Ctrl-Alt-Del], and it goes into reboot mode and shows everything > that it is shutting down.... It sounds that you are booting just fine but you have troubles with video. The first sanity check in such situation is to see if you can boot to a shell prompt. Drop from a boot line things like "quiet" and "rhgb" (you can edit that, not permanently, from a grub menu screen) and add "3" instead. Do you get a login prompt? If not then when your screen goes away? Does "nomodeset 3" change anything and if not then what about "nomodeset 1"? Once in shell then looking at /var/log/Xorg.0.log may bring some clues. _After_ you checked that and saved a copy what are effects of 'startx' from a shell prompt? Could you login over a network when this is up? Does selinux in a "permissive" state makes a difference? Maybe you do need "nomodeset" on your hardware? If this is the case then you are in a bugzilla time. I have one machine where literally the last minute changes before F12 release resulted in a necessity of "nohz=off" to make it work at all. Michal -- fedora-test-list mailing list fedora-test-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-test-list
