Fedora 12 new updated kernel won't boot

[Kevin J. Cummings]

On 03/01/2010 10:11 AM, Barry Yu wrote:
> On 02/28/2010 07:06 PM, Sam Varshavchik wrote:
>> Barry Yu writes:
>>
>>> During the startup, when I chose the top line (updated kernel 
>>> version) on the grub menu and then hit return, the round thing at 
>>> center begins the progress indication of booting into login window, 
>>> then then window is black out in text mode the frozen with the cursor 
>>> blinking, completely locked up.
>>
>> If you're saying that it locks up at the conclusion of the boot 
>> process, and just before you'd normally get the gdm login screen, then 
>> try adding 'nomodeset' boot parameter.
>>
>> Otherwise, if it locks up before the boot normally finishes, press the 
>> escape key as soon as you get the progress indication, and see what 
>> happens.
>>
> How to add 'nomodeset' boot parameter ?

Put it on your grub kernel command line....along with the other boot
parameters.

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