[CentOS] Desktop: After yum update and power off, cannot boot new Kernel

Wed Jun 25 13:03:22 UTC 2008
Tim Verhoeven <tim.verhoeven.be at gmail.com>

On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 3:00 PM, Lanny Marcus <lmmailinglists at gmail.com> wrote:
> Yesterday, in the afternoon, I did "yum update" on my Desktop. Everything
> seemed AOK. After power down last night, when I powered on this morning, it
> began to boot the new Kernel and then seemed to die. Instead of getting the
> progress of the boot on the CRT, the screen was blank and nothing happening.
> I am now running off the previous Kernel on this box. Is there a fix for
> this, so I can use the new Kernel? This morning, I did "yum upgrade" on my
> daughter's box and that is finishing now. If I have the same problem on that
> box, I will follow on in this thread. TIA, Lanny

Could it be that you are also having this issue :
http://bugs.centos.org/view.php?id=2912

Regards,
Tim

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