fc11 - blank screen at boot after mobo upgrade

[Stefano Cavallari]

On Sunday 17 January 2010 19:07:31 Tod Thomas wrote:
> I had an old Epox mobo running with an old Athlon XP chip so I decided
> to upgrade.  Before I made this decision I decided to upgrade from fc10
> to fc11 using yum.  Upgrade went well, rebooted, everything fine.
> 
> After upgrading my Mobo and CPU to an Asus m4a78-em and a sempron 2.7GHz
> AM3 chip I booted up.  All my drives are recognized, the grub prompt
> comes up (I'm dual booting with windows XP on a smaller drive) and life
> seems good until the screen goes blank.  After booting couple of times I
> tried using noapic to no avail.  Once more I tried but removed quiet
> from the grub kernel line.  This time I see stuff happening but the text
> flies by so fast I can't read it, but at least I see the system trying
> to boot.
> 
> I always upgrade using yum, never had a real problem I couldn't work
> out.  I'm using stock LVM, never had a problem there either.  I wonder
> if its grub but I didn't want to start messing around until I got a
> little advice.  Also, I am dual booting windows on a separate drive.
>
> 
> Any ideas?
I'd try "nomodeset" (and no "quiet").
If it does not work maybe you can see some boot messages.

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