On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 8:21 AM, Lanny Marcus <lmmailinglists at gmail.com> wrote: > > On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 8:03 AM, Tim Verhoeven <tim.verhoeven.be at gmail.com> > wrote: > >> 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 >> >> Tim: I read the data for that Bug, but on my CRT, after the boot begins, > and it begins reporting the progress of the boot, the screen goes completely > blank and there is no HD activity. After the "yum update" yesterday, after > I did the Reboot, it booted into the new Kernel, without any problem and I > reported in the Happy Camper thread that it was a flawless upgrade. After > the power down last night and power up this morning, the new Kernel will > not boot and I am now running on the previous Kernel. This is a Dell > Dimension 2400 with a 2.6 GHz Celeron CPU and 512 MB of RAM. I am now > curious, after the "yum upgrade" on my daughters box finishes, if it will > have the same issue. TIA, Lanny > Follow On: After the "yum upgrade" on my daughters box (Dell Dimension 4300 with a P4 CPU, 1.6 GHz and (I think) 512 MB RAM, two (2) reboots went perfectly, into the new Kernel. Then, I powered the box down, very briefly, and powered it back on. No problem, booting into the new Kernel, on that box. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20080625/f294bedd/attachment-0005.html>