[conspire] new laptop Fedora 13 with NVIDIA graphics card - yum update - now only blank screen

[Ehud Kaldor]

had that a couple of days ago. i think there was a kernel update that broke
the NVIDIA kmod (if you are using it). you can try and login to a different,
text console (after boot is done, hold ctrl+alt+F2 or F3) and run dmesg or
cat /var/log/messages to look for specific errors.
anyway, i would recommend setting few seconds pause on the kernel selection
screen of grub and boot to a previous kernel.

Ehud


On Sun, Sep 19, 2010 at 10:29 AM, Darlene Wallach <
freepalestin at dslextreme.com> wrote:

> I purchased a new laptop from Linux Certified with Fedora 13 installed.
>
> I did "yum update". Now I only have a blank screen when I try to boot
> the laptop. Since I can't see anything I have no idea what is going
> on.
>
> I did the yum update yesterday. I thought I had rebooted successfully
> and left the laptop on with the power supply plugged in and the cover
> down. Now I only see a blank screen. I did a hard shutdown and when I
> try to boot, I only get a blank screen.
>
> I tried putting a Fedora 11 live CD and still only get a blank screen.
>
> Any suggestions?
>
> Thank you
> Darlene Wallach
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