Ok, here's a question for all you gurus out there. I have a problem, and I know how to fix it, but I can't get to a point where I can fix it. I got frustrated, and decided to beg for help.
I used yum to update a FC3 T2 system to a T3 system. All went well enough I thought. I noticed that I had installed a new kernel, so I decided to reboot to see how it worked. Well, the upgrade has trashed X. I thought, no problem, I'll just disable rhgb, and boot, X will go a little crazy, but I'll go to tty2 and roll back X, and then ask here why the new X messed me up.
So, I boot to GRUB and remove rhgb from the kernel arguments. But, rhgb is still used, and everytime it screws up. By the time the system is booted, X is respanwing like crazy and you can't log in even at non-graphical screen. I go to tty2 and type in root and it blinks and it asks me for my login again. No opportunity to enter my password.
So, from the grub screen how can I disable rhgb and boot to 3 instead of 5? I've thought about using the rescue cd to edit my grub.conf file, but I don't understand why editing the kernel args at boot doesn't work.
I would appreciate any ideas on how I can eliminate X from my boot sequence long enough to roll-back X.
BTW: does anyone have any idea why X.org 6.8.1-12 trashed my installation?
Thanks andy