Paul G. Allen wrote: > On Sun, 2007-09-02 at 23:44 -0700, James G. Sack (jim) wrote: > >> I don't suppose you have a Knoppix CD? >> Or..let's see, .. did the FC6 install CD have a rescue option? >> > > Long story short, my brother and I spent a long time using the install > DVD and booting into rescue mode with no luck. We changed the grub boot > commands, compared what grub was doing with fdisk -l output, looked at > Google results for posts related to the error I was getting, messed with > fstab (before getting a clue and realizing that the system was never > even reading fstab because it was choking before it got that far), and I > even tried to re-install FC6 without formatting the partitions. Nothing > helped. > > So, in went the FC7 DVD my brother had brought with him. 4 hours later, > it had finished upgrading from FC6. Reboot, the system works fine. In > fact, the battery monitor and power management - which never worked > before in RH 9.0 or FC4 - works like a champ as well.
Aw, shucks. That takes all the fun away. Could you recreate the broken state so we can play some more, hmmm? ;-) O:-) Regards, ..jim (I do believe f7 has done some good things) -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
