Re: How do you clear a botched kernel on a PPC system?

2009-09-28 Thread Joel Rees
On Sep 27, 2009, at 3:20 AM, a helpful person wrote me off-list: (Leaving out the name in case the off-list was intentional. Or maybe it was because it was a reply to my mis-post to the -test-list.) On Sat, Sep 26, 2009 at 07:19:45PM +0900, Joel Rees wrote: it tells me that I should try

How do you clear a botched kernel on a PPC system?

2009-09-26 Thread Joel Rees
I find myself in another nice catch 22. Some time last week, I updated with yum (after several weeks of not updating) and, for some reason, I was able to reboot that day, but the next day attempting to boot Fedora resulted in a kernel panic. Looking things up, I see I'm not the only one

Re: How do you clear a botched kernel on a PPC system?

2009-09-26 Thread David Timms
On 09/26/2009 08:27 PM, Joel Rees wrote: I find myself in another nice catch 22. ... So I'm having a hard time with things today. Can someone put me out of my misery? Yeah, mate, take that .22 above and... No seriously: Without having a ppc machine, I imagine that you can hit escape or

Re: How do you clear a botched kernel on a PPC system?

2009-09-26 Thread Kam Leo
On Sat, Sep 26, 2009 at 5:05 PM, David Timms dti...@iinet.net.au wrote: On 09/26/2009 08:27 PM, Joel Rees wrote: I find myself in another nice catch 22. ... So I'm having a hard time with things today. Can someone put me out of my misery? Yeah, mate, take that .22 above and... No

Re: How do you clear a botched kernel on a PPC system?

2009-09-26 Thread Joel Rees
On 27 Sep 2009 10:05:04 +1000, David Timms wrote, On 09/26/2009 08:27 PM, Joel Rees wrote: I find myself in another nice catch 22. ... So I'm having a hard time with things today. Can someone put me out of my misery? Yeah, mate, take that .22 above and... Thanks for the sympathy. ;-/ No