On Tue, Oct 11, 2005 at 11:22:44PM -0400, Noel Murphy wrote: > > I have gotten myself into a weird situation. I had a working FC4 / > myth 18.1 box, but for some reason it somehow got messed up and would > not boot. > > I have since just formatted the drives (after slapping the drives > into a different machine and backing up some stuff) and did a fresh > install. > > However, now I have the following situation. > > I'm following Jarod's guide. I did the install from the dvd. After > the "initial boot", I end up in the following problem. > > Kernel 2.6.11-1.1369 boots my machine no problem. Unfortunately, that > kernel is too old to get the ivtv modules. > When I upgraded my kernel (to 2.6.13-1.1526) my machine gets to the > ui screen where all the services start up, but then goes completely > black instead of bring up the login screen. The LED on the monitor > goes orange (indicating there is no video signal) and i can't seem to > do anything. I can ssh into the machine, but can't find anything > obvious as to what went wrong. > > Now, I was pretty sure that I had a 2.6.12 kernel installed on this > box before the "big format", so I tried to install one of the two > 2.6.12 kernels available, but for some reason, I can't seem to get > yum to install it. Doing a "yum list available" does not list any > 2.6.12 kernels, but I can see them if I point my browser to the > correct url. > > Now, even weirder is I just carried on with the guide (knowing full > well there was going to be stuff I couldn't install), I installed the > "ivtv" package. This in turn installed the "ivtv- > kmdl-2.6.12-1.1456_FC4" module and thus in turn installed the > corresponding kernel. Why it found it this way, but not when I > specifically asked it to I'm still confused on. > > However, this kernel has the same problem as the 2.6.13 kernel (Blank > screen instead of login screen) > > So, all this being said. > > 1. Anyone know what is going on with my machine and the "latest" > kernels? What should i check / look at? > 2. Anyone know why i can't install the older kernels? I'm assuming > "yum install kernel-2.6.12-1.1447_FC4" should work? I get a "nothing > to do" message. > 3. Anyone got any other ideas as to what i can do???? I'm probably > not comfortable with compiling my own kernel / modules.
You didn't mention your hardware. I had some issues with 2.6.13-1.1526 on x86_64 hardware. I would try to install FC4 and do only a yum update w/o adding any kernel moudles or any other 3rd party stuff. If you hit the problem already in this state (and it looks so), please report to bugzilla.redhat.com including dmesg/hardware info etc. -- Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net
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