Craig responded: Either...
A. let it boot up until the screen disappears... press <Control><Alt><F2>
or
B. Press a key at the grub prompt and highlight the kernel with the arrow keys and press the letter 'e', move down to the kernel line and press the letter 'e'. Add a space and put in the number "3" to tell it to boot to runlevel 3 --------------------------- jbyers: A. did not work, all it does is recover a blinking white dash, no response to keyboard
B. I got partway thru this, i think including adding "3", then I did something wrong left with grub> I wasnt clear at this point put in "boot" got many error msgs
I finally went back to my fc5 and put a space and a "3" at end of kernel line in the f10 grub.conf. This got me to login
I will try yum update mkinitrd yum update
later today; I need my fc5 right now.
Jack
On Wed, 2009-05-06 at 14:49 -0700, jackson byers wrote:
Craig responded: Either...
A. let it boot up until the screen disappears... press <Control><Alt><F2>
or
B. Press a key at the grub prompt and highlight the kernel with the arrow keys and press the letter 'e', move down to the kernel line and press the letter 'e'. Add a space and put in the number "3" to tell it to boot to runlevel 3
jbyers: A. did not work, all it does is recover a blinking white dash, no response to keyboard
B. I got partway thru this, i think including adding "3", then I did something wrong left with grub> I wasnt clear at this point put in "boot" got many error msgs
I finally went back to my fc5 and put a space and a "3" at end of kernel line in the f10 grub.conf. This got me to login
I will try yum update mkinitrd yum update
later today; I need my fc5 right now.
---- well, it won't do you any good since you are not getting past grub
at this point, I would probably...
boot the Install DVD, put the kernel argument into the boot command...
linux install scsi_mod.scan=sync
and then re-install Fedora 10 by removing /dev/sda1 and perhaps making /dev/sda1 about 200 megabytes for just /boot and then /dev/sda4 for /
At least if you boot the DVD with the scsi_mod.scan=sync kernel parameter, when it installs the kernel and builds your initrd, it will build it with that parameter already.
Craig
On Thu, May 7, 2009 at 8:02 AM, Craig White craigwhite@azapple.com wrote:
On Wed, 2009-05-06 at 14:49 -0700, jackson byers wrote:
I finally went back to my fc5 and put a space and a "3" at end of kernel line in the f10 grub.conf. This got me to login
well, it won't do you any good since you are not getting past grub
My (differing) interpretation of the above is that he is reporting success at reaching text login in f10. But like much of what he writes, it is hard to be sure what he is actually saying.
Jack I am on of many contributors to this thread who thinks that it would be a lot easier for us to help you if you put more time/effort into how you communicate here. If you still have a problem, spend some time and effort writing your next post with the following in mind:
On Mon, May 4, 2009 at 9:29 AM, Frank Cox theatre@sasktel.net wrote:
Any chance you could re-post your question using complete words and sentences, and a complete description of what you have done and what you expect to see, and what you actually see?
On Mon, May 4, 2009 at 9:36 AM, g geleem@bellsouth.net wrote:
you may need to express yourself in simpler terms.
On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 8:59 AM, Craig White craigwhite@azapple.com wrote:
I'm sort of confused what you actually have there.
On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 1:30 PM, Craig White craigwhite@azapple.com wrote:
you probably did - reading through your e-mails is very tough because you continue to use HTML format which really makes it hard to decipher everything.
Before posting again, I suggest you read the guidelines [1]. But in your case, I suggest the most important guideline is what Frank wrote above and that is far more important than "Keep It Short".
Every forum is different. Here, the expertise of the contributors in this list is extremely high, but the general expectation on this list is for high quality communication in both directions. Spending time and effort writing your questions clearly is expected here. If you still have a problem, it might help to make a fresh start on describing it, because I and others are having difficulty comprehending your situation accurately, after >20 messages in this thread.
[1] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
On Thu, 2009-05-07 at 10:41 +1000, David wrote:
On Thu, May 7, 2009 at 8:02 AM, Craig White craigwhite@azapple.com wrote:
On Wed, 2009-05-06 at 14:49 -0700, jackson byers wrote:
I finally went back to my fc5 and put a space and a "3" at end of kernel line in the f10 grub.conf. This got me to login
well, it won't do you any good since you are not getting past grub
My (differing) interpretation of the above is that he is reporting success at reaching text login in f10. But like much of what he writes, it is hard to be sure what he is actually saying.
---- it doesn't make sense that he can't boot from his F10 installation directly but chainload to his FC5 installation which gives him a boot menu that boots his F10 installation.
That almost begs to get the full copies of both /boot/grub/grub.conf and compare them.
But in reality, if he's never successfully logged in to F10, the problem booting with the scsi_mod kernel parameter in order to have a working initrd on first bootup would be solved by re-installing F10 again by booting the DVD with the kernel parameter invoked when starting the install itself and save a whole bunch of grief.
Craig