Re: Latest Kernel causes reboot hell

2009-12-09 Thread Chris
On Mon, 07 Dec 2009 18:30:02 -0500 Sam Varshavchik mr...@courier-mta.com wrote: Chris writes: On Mon, 07 Dec 2009 18:06:12 -0500 Sam Varshavchik mr...@courier-mta.com wrote: Some time ago, in F9-F10 era, there was a consecutive series of about four kernels that were released that

Re: Latest Kernel causes reboot hell

2009-12-09 Thread Ian Malone
2009/12/7 Sam Varshavchik mr...@courier-mta.com: The best way to avoid the problem might be to get grub to display the list of installed (assuming that the original F12 kernel worked for you) and select that kernel to boot from. Change the default line in /etc/grub.conf to automate that.

Re: Latest Kernel causes reboot hell

2009-12-09 Thread Sam Varshavchik
Ian Malone writes: Yes, it does look more polished the way it is now, but what used to be really obvious (especially to someone who has always run dual boot set-ups), that you can boot an earlier kernel, is now an obscure piece of knowledge. Suggestions: 1. The grub boot screen should have an

Re: Latest Kernel causes reboot hell

2009-12-09 Thread Tom Horsley
On Wed, 09 Dec 2009 07:13:30 -0500 Sam Varshavchik wrote: I think there's a way to install a one-time only grub configuration file, for the next boot. There are two ways: The one documented in the grub info file, and the one that actually works :-). Both involve savedefault, but the grub help

Latest Kernel causes reboot hell

2009-12-07 Thread Chris
After running 12 for some weeks now, I allowed yum to install the newest kernel (well, as of Friday of course). all seemed to go just fine until I rebooted. All the machine will do is continue to reboot itself over and over again. I reinstalled and applied only updates other then 3 that

Re: Latest Kernel causes reboot hell

2009-12-07 Thread Marc Wilson
On Mon, Dec 7, 2009 at 10:44 AM, Chris rac...@makeworld.com wrote: Currently, I tossed on Ubuntu just so I can get some work done however, would really prefer to be back running F12. Other than that it let you make a snarky Ubuntu remark, why would you need to replace F12 just so that you can

Re: Latest Kernel causes reboot hell

2009-12-07 Thread Chris
-Original Message- From: Marc Wilson [mailto:m...@cox.net] Sent: Monday, December 7, 2009 01:37 PM To: 'Community assistance, encouragement, and advice for using Fedora.' Subject: Re: Latest Kernel causes reboot hell On Mon, Dec 7, 2009 at 10:44 AM, Chris rac...@makeworld.com wrote

Re: Latest Kernel causes reboot hell

2009-12-07 Thread Louis Lagendijk
On Mon, 2009-12-07 at 20:07 +, Chris wrote: -Original Message- From: Marc Wilson [mailto:m...@cox.net] Sent: Monday, December 7, 2009 01:37 PM To: 'Community assistance, encouragement,and advice for using Fedora.' Subject: Re: Latest Kernel causes reboot hell On Mon, Dec 7

Re: Latest Kernel causes reboot hell

2009-12-07 Thread Kevin J. Cummings
I just wanted to add my recent experience with the new F12 kernel A couple of days ago, I had a PF in my area (due to the snowstorm, I imagine). My F12 machine (the one *not* on a UPS, yet) remained down for a couple of days. This morning, noting last night's updates, I rebooted it (so I

Re: Latest Kernel causes reboot hell

2009-12-07 Thread Tony Nelson
On 09-12-07 15:51:38, Kevin J. Cummings wrote: ... I just went to reboot it. Since I wasn't logged into the console, I used the GDM reboot button to reboot the system. While it was shutting down, it just hung. That's when I noticed the caps-lock and scroll-lock leds flashing in unison.

Re: Latest Kernel causes reboot hell

2009-12-07 Thread Sam Varshavchik
Chris writes: After running 12 for some weeks now, I allowed yum to install the newest kernel (well, as of Friday of course). all seemed to go just fine until I rebooted. All the machine will do is continue to reboot itself over and over again. I reinstalled and applied only updates other

Re: Latest Kernel causes reboot hell

2009-12-07 Thread Chris
On Mon, 07 Dec 2009 18:06:12 -0500 Sam Varshavchik mr...@courier-mta.com wrote: Chris writes: After running 12 for some weeks now, I allowed yum to install the newest kernel (well, as of Friday of course). all seemed to go just fine until I rebooted. All the machine will do is

Re: Latest Kernel causes reboot hell

2009-12-07 Thread Sam Varshavchik
Chris writes: On Mon, 07 Dec 2009 18:06:12 -0500 Sam Varshavchik mr...@courier-mta.com wrote: Some time ago, in F9-F10 era, there was a consecutive series of about four kernels that were released that could not boot on one of my machines. Somehow, I managed to survive this traumatic

Re: Latest Kernel causes reboot hell

2009-12-07 Thread Tim
On Mon, 2009-12-07 at 11:37 -0800, Marc Wilson wrote: There, that's MY snarky remark. Gods, people, if you want to use Ubuntu, go use Ubuntu already... no need to tell everyone about it. Here's mine: He's taking his bat, and someone else's ball, and going home... -- [...@localhost ~]$