[Novalug] EeePC/F8 update : glitch

[Jay Hart]

Beartooth,

When you are boooting up, stop your autoboot sequence, and type a 3 onto the
end of the kernel line.

that should boot you into runlevel 3.

Then, I think you will need to regenerate an xorg.conf file.

Jay

> On Sat, 1 Mar 2008, Beartooth wrote:
>
>> On Sat, 1 Mar 2008, Kevin Cole wrote:
>>
>>> On Sat, Mar 1, 2008 at 9:00 AM, Beartooth
>>> <karhunhammas at lserv.com> wrote:
>> [....]
>>>>          I pointed a PC at rpm.pbone; searched F8 for
>>>> kernel-2.6.15; downloaded one; copied it to a thumb drive;
>>>> copied it from there to the EeePC; and ran rpm -Uvh against
>>>> it.
> [...]
>>>>          That actually worked. Not immediately, nor after
>>>> running kudzu; so I rebooted -- and sure enough, then it
>>>> did.Pirut connected, and I'm in process of paring F8 down to
>>>> EeePC size as we speak.
> [...]
>> 	Fwiw, I got most of my pruning with pirut done, ran yum
>> clean all (and rpm --rebuilddb, just in case), and swung the
>> big hammer : yum update. It found 125 updates -- *way* less
>> than it'd've been without the respin -- and is downloading #25
>> now.
>
>  	I spoke too soon. Apparently I pruned too little -- and
> then too much.
>
>  	Yum update hit a scatload of "cannot allocate memory"
> errors. I tried pirut again, slashing right and left without
> being careful about what all I pruned.
>
>  	One big slash took a lot of stuff including
> Network-Manager and pirut itself. I told yum to put pirut back --
> and tried to reboot.
>
>  	Now I'm getting the "respawning too fast" error.
>
>  	Somebody said here yesterday, iirc, that init3 mought c'd
> handle that; I'm at grub's list of commands, but I don't see one
> that will put me into init3 ....
>
> --
> Beartooth Staffwright, Neo-Redneck Double Retiree,
> Not Quite Clueless Linux Power User with precious
> (very precious) little idea where up is.
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