On 9/14/07, <b class="gmail_sendername"><a href="mailto:pjf@cape.com">pjf@cape.com</a></b> <<a href="mailto:pjf@cape.com">pjf@cape.com</a>> wrote:<div><span class="gmail_quote"></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Craig,<br><br>Try this,<br>Boot up your system with the current kernel.<br>edit your /boot/grub/grub.conf and copy the working kernel section.<br><br>ADD a section BELOW the working one:<br># note the LABEL= Section should be the same as your current kernel)
<br># be sure the kernel and initrd are in your /boot directory<br># you may want to remove the rhgb and quiet flags to get an old fashon<br>text boot<br><br>title Fedora Core (2.6.20-1.2962.fc6)<br> root (hd0,0)
<br> kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.20-1.2962.fc6 ro root=LABEL=/ rhgb quiet<br> initrd /initrd-2.6.20-1.2962.fc6.img<br><br>Reboot<br><br>-Pete<br><br><snip><br></blockquote></div><br>Pete,<br><br>I'll try that shortly, but I have a few questions.
<br><br>1) What makes this different than the existing section in my grub.conf for the previous kernel version?<br>2) I assume you intend for me to override the default boot in the grub boot dialog to use this added entry?
<br>3) Removing rhgb and quiet from the kernel line only turns X off during the boot, not after boot is complete, right?<br><br>Craig.<br>