FC5 does not boot up after removing packages and some tinkering
I installed FC5 recently on a Dell e1705 laptop as a dual-boot. Immediately, I found a few things that were not satisfactory: no wireless, low-res display and no sound.
I worked on wireless connection first, and finished the job with ndiswrapper solution. I then proceed onto screen resolution problem and this was where disaster strikes. The end results: every time it boot up, it would go thru most of the boot up sequence, until it hangs soon after 'Start service Readahead'. I would be looking at a blue, empty, screen with only a mouse pointer, which I can move. The following are things I did (trying my best to remember) before it stopped booting up: 1. Have 915Resolution installed and in /etc/inittab, change the default runlevel to 3. 2. Removing entire /usr/src/redhat dir manually via commands, since kernel source code in there was out-of-date. 3. Removing the following packages via 'Add / Remove software': package manager, after I realized that's the wrong solution for the hardware: a) http://rpm.livna.org/livna-release-5.rpm b) http://rpm.livna.org/RPM-LIVNA-GPG-KEY c) kmod-fglrx-smp (this installs a video card driver:fglrx) Any suggestions on what might've gone wrong or how to figure it out and fix it would be greatly appreciated. TIA, Kwei |
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Use the rescue system to put things back the way they were.
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FC5 failed to boot
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thx, Kwei |
How to use the rescue system
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thx, Kwei |
the resuce system is your install disks. There should be an option for system recovery when you boot from them. At least, from what I remember from FC, it has that option.
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Rescue CD
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thx for the help. Kwei |
On a sidenote, what runlevel did you set, so if someone else is looking through the forum for an answer, they might be able to find it?
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Setting runlevel incorrectly
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Regards, Kwei |
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