[labman]

Hi all

first cry for help here so bear with me, I know my way around Windows but still very new to Linux.

I've been running FC3 for about a month now and it's been rock solid and a good learning experience. I ran the update routine to install the latest available updates (about 15 of them) including a kernel update (ends in 766, hope that means something to you).

Now it won't boot. I've managed to turn "rhgb quiet" off from the grub screen so I could get a better idea of what's happening, from what I can see the boot gets as far as "Enabling swap space" [ok] then stalls.

What's next in the boot routine? What could be stopping it at that point and is there anything I can do about it short of a reinstall? For info, attempting to boot the previous kernel produces the same problem.

thanks for your assistance.

[labman]

a little more info:
When I installed FC3, it came with the 2.6.9-1.667 kernel.
Since then, I successfully updated to the 2.6.10-1.760_FC3 kernel. It booted ok and ran well.
When I ran my update yesterday, the kernel was updated to 2.6.10-1.766_FC3. It will not boot, instead failing at the point mentioned in my first post. In addition, the previous kernel won't boot either, suffering the same failure.
The 2.6.9-1.667 kernel still boots fine.

Not sure where to go from here. Can I re-run the update somehow? Am I better off just sticking with the older kernel? Opinions welcome.

[halliekat]

We are using RHEL 4.0 and ran an update last night which included a kernel upgrade and are now having the exact same issue that you described. Did you ever find a solution to this issue? If so, we would greatly appreciate any information that you have.

[halliekat]

We have resolved this issue by disabling selinux.