Boot failure after update

[James McKenzie]

Chris Birchenhall wrote:
{top post moved to bottom of message, where it belongs }
>> From: micheal <sundance at sundanceloki.com>
>> Reply-To: For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list at redhat.com>
>> To: For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list at redhat.com>
>> Subject: Re: Boot failure after update
>> Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2005 08:12:31 -0600
>>
>> On Fri, 2005-02-25 at 13:19 +0000, Chris Birchenhall wrote:
>> > The old kernel works fine. The new kernel seems to hang after 
>> setting up
>> > swap space.
>> >
>>
>> Maybe booting without the options "rhgb quiet" would give you a helpful
>> error message.
>>
>> JIC you don't know how to do this, highlight the new kernel in the menu.
>> press a for append, and backspace out the rhgb quiet part. then press b
>> to boot.
> Tried that. Seems to hangs while looking for new hardware.
> 
It appears that kudzu is hanging on a system scan and you can disable 
this on bootup.  Type in the following commands.  The <> entry means to 
type in the information requested without the <> characters.  I make the 
assumption that you are booting into either Gnome or KDE.  If you are 
booting up into a different init (1,2 or 3) then change the 
/etc/rc.d/rc5.d to the appropriate init value (rc1.d, rc2.d or rc3.d). 
These commands should be entered from a terminal screen (Ctrl+Alt+F1)

Login:  root
<Enter root's password>
cd /etc/rc.d/rc5.d
mv S05kudzu X05kudzu
exit

If you cannot boot up your system, this should be done from the rescue 
or install CD #1 by booting into rescue mode.  Mount your filesystem to 
/mnt/sysimage and the cd command will change to cd 
/mnt/sysimage/etc/rc.d/rc5.d

Hope this helps resolve your problem.
-- 
James McKenzie
With assistance, Now running 2.6.11rc3, Software Suspend 2
and ibm-acpi .1
Need a home for my .rpm