Fedora 12 new updated kernel won't boot - Resolved

[Barry Yu]

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.
>
Adding "nomodeset" into menu.lst really resolved the problem, and by 
pressing the Escape key also works too, thanks