Cannot boot laptop due to video driver

[Robin Laing]

On 2015-01-16 10:07, Doug wrote:
> 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
>


I agree that a live disk/usb would be the tool but that is hard to get 
at the wee hours of the morning and no other computer in use.

I did get it fixed.

Thanks for the comments.