[GRLUG] fedora won't boot

[Eric Beversluis]

I was able to use 'yum erase' to get rid of the faulty new kernel and
then Software Update ran successfully and I'm in the new kernel now.

Thanks.

On Thu, 2013-11-21 at 00:45 -0500, Jordan Hudson wrote:
> I'm sure there is somebody more qualified to assist than me, but I'll
> try to help. The fact that you can still use the fallback kernel is a
> good sign, and I would try to update again, or probably try to roll
> back the kernel to the previous one until the next update is
> available. If that is not the problem then look into what else was
> installed in the update. This site
> http://www.techrepublic.com/article/solutionbase-steps-to-take-to-fix-linux-when-it-wont-start/ has some ideas to go off from. The fedora forums are a good place to start as well, maybe there is an announcement. Other than that its been too long since I've used a red hat distro, stopped distro hopping when I found arch :) 
> 
> Anyways, good luck, keep us updated.
> 
> On Nov 20, 2013 10:29 PM, <ebever at researchintegration.org> wrote:
>         I chose "install updates and restart" but now fedora 19 won't
>         boot all the way.
>         It hung about half way through filling out the little fedora
>         circly thing. When
>         I restarted it it seemed to go ok for a while and then hung
>         after showing a
>         bunch of lines on the screen. The last two were
>         
>         [  7.510831 ]  [<ffffffff8163db10>]  ? rest_init+0x80/0x80
>         [  7.510902 ] ---[ end trace e37f0330f34b0303 ] ---
>         
>         Does anyone know what may have happened and what I need to do?
>         I tried
>         restarting it once more and got the same result, with slightly
>         different
>         numbers ( 2.490... and a different end trace number).
>         
>         When I restarted it and chose the second listed kernel rather
>         than the top one,
>         it seemed to boot OK. Maybe the update was a new kernel
>         version and that didn't
>         install properly? If so, what's the procedure? Just try
>         "Install Updates and
>         Restart" again?
>         
>         Thanks.
>         
>         
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