On Wed, June 25, 2008 11:01 am, Lanny Marcus wrote: > FOLLOW ON: On my box, when it is trying to boot the latest Kernel > (2.6.18-92.1.1el5) the last thing I see on the CRT is "starting udev" > and after that, the screen goes blank and there is no HD activity. This sounds a lot like the problem with the nvidia-drv-x11 package from RPMForge. Are you, by any chance, using it? If so, you should be able to boot into run level 3 without any problems, and X (run level 5) should start working after you remove it. That is, at least, my experience.