Cannot boot laptop due to video driver

[Doug]

On 01/16/2015 01:20 AM, Robin Laing wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I am trying to help my child whom is across the country repair their laptop after installing the wrong video driver.  They can boot into emergency mode but not any of the other kernels.
>
> During booting into the system, the boot process stops close to the point of starting KDM.
>
> We tried the following the guides on the net to remove the bad package and keep getting stuck.
>
> Tried to modify grub2 during boot to try booting into single mode and that didn't work or we put the "single" in the wrong place.
>
> A link that I can send them on how to use yum to remove the driver from emergency mode or get into single user mode would be appreciated.
>
> Either that or instructions on how to do either.
>
> I told them to ask around the computer club as someone there might be able to help them instead of me trying over the phone.
>
> Current Fedora documentation for using the rescue mode is very sparse.
>
> Tried the procedures on this page with no success.  They said that they couldn't get the chroot command to work.  They may have typed something wrong because it was very late.  Going to deal with it tomorrow (Friday).
>
> http://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/Fedora/16/html/Installation_Guide/rescuemode_drivers.html
>

  
I would think a live disk (from any version of Linux) would allow them to access anything on the failed system and modify it.
It would help if you have enough information about the computer and its video "card" to tell them what they need to do,
specifically.

--doug