heads up: new rawhide kernel doesn't boot for me
Ben Boeckel
mathstuf at gmail.com
Thu Apr 7 13:55:19 UTC 2011
Jim Meyering <jim at meyering.net> wrote:
> Two subsequent attempts to reboot failed because even though I got
> to the grub kernel-selection menu, I was unable to get a response
> out of the interface, so couldn't select any other kernel or even
> edit a grub stanza. Luckily for me, on the third attempt, grub's
> UI did respond to down-arrow and "ENTER", so I could select
> the preceding kernel, and that one did manage to boot.
I've seen this as well. I think it may be linked with the BIOS getting
confused about mashing the modifier keys to get GRUB to show up in the
first place and then being "stuck" akin to Caps Lock.
--Ben
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