New Kernel will not boot

Patrick O'Callaghan pocallaghan at gmail.com
Thu Apr 1 14:59:00 UTC 2010


On Thu, 2010-04-01 at 15:45 +0100, Michal wrote:
> On 01/04/2010 15:18, Bruno Wolff III wrote:
> > On Thu, Apr 01, 2010 at 07:33:09 -0600,
> >   Lawrence E Graves <lgraves at risingstarmbc.com> wrote:
> >> I am having trouble with the installing of the new kernel release about
> >> 2 days ago.  When I install it and reboot my system it stops at the
> >> Fedora sign in the middle of the screen.  It is hard for me to explain
> >> exactly what is happening because I am not good with the technical terms
> >> used.
> > 
> > When you report issues like this please state the kernel version you are
> > using. New kernels come out pretty often and even if we new which Fedora
> > release you are using, we wouldn't be sure which kernel version you are
> > using.
> 
> I have seen this, if memory serves correct while it's doing this you can
> press F7 or F8 (I can't remember which) and it shows text instead of an
> image. It could have trouble starting a service or running chkdsk. Do
> this and say where it is stuck.

Press Esc (Escape) for console messages. Also, chkdsk is a Windows
utility. I presume you mean fsck.

poc



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