Cannot boot up after kernel upgrade

[Jean Jacques]

I found it too. I think the best right way is to re install system.

2012/2/6 Marko Vojinovic <vvmarko at gmail.com>

> On Sunday 05 February 2012 21:59:57 T.C. Hollingsworth wrote:
> > On Sun, Feb 5, 2012 at 9:40 PM, Jean Jacques <chaoyzj at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > Nvidia and installed it by run NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-290.10.run file
> which
> > > is downloaded from Nvidia website.
> >
> > Unfortunately, installing the download directly from Nvidia tends to
> > cause problems on kernel upgrades.  I strongly suggest you uninstall
> > that version and use the version from RPMFusion [1] instead.  It's
> > designed to work with Fedora and handle kernel updates appropriately.
> >
> > Otherwise, you may need to reinstall the version you installed to get
> > it to work properly.
>
> In addition to what T.C said, note that uninstalling the nVidia's .run
> installation is a nontrivial task (at least it was last time I did it,
> maybe
> things are better these days). There are several system libraries that the
> .run installation overwrites with nVidia versions, and the uninstall
> process
> doesn't (or didn't use to) replace those back. Unless you do this manually,
> after uninstallation you might still be left with a broken system. In any
> case
> you should manually check if the uninstall process did replace everything
> to
> its original state.
>
> I don't remember the details anymore, though. There are various
> instructions
> on the web and in this list's archives about the filenames etc. Google is
> your
> friend.
>
> As a point for the future --- when you are faced with the need to install
> various 3rd party stuff like binary drivers for this or that, it is always
> a
> good idea to first get informed what is the Right Way (tm) to do it in
> Fedora.
> That will help you avoid situations like painting yourself into a corner
> and
> similar. :-)
>
> HTH, :-)
> Marko
>
>
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