Hi,
Ok, I'm on a steep learning curve here but I think I'm learning fast!
I tried following your suggestions below but:
Well, you've got a long way. Turning off sendmail should have no
effect,
as you'd expect.
Noticed that, turned back on sendmail and corrected the System
Time which is what was causing it to groan in the first place. Now error there is gone.
Terminology: the "Fedora navy screen" is also known as the Grub menu. In
it, highlight the Fedora kernel and press "e" to edit it. Delete
"rhgb"
and "quiet" from the line beginning "kernel", and put a "
3" there. That
should boot you into text mode.
I looked this up but the lines in my Grub screen
are:
================== BELOW THIS LINE ==================
root (hd0,0)
kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.9-1.667 ro root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00
initrd /initrd-2.6.9-1.667.img
================== ABOVE THIS LINE ==================
So no mention of "rhgb" or "quiet"!
To get in to command line I do:
c (for command line)
boot (gives error message about kernel, but bring me to black grub screen!)
<ESC> (brings back to Grub menu but in black!)
<ENTER> (boots to command line)
Run level is set to 3 already (in inittab). The first line reads:
id:3:initdefault:
Why is this not causing it to boot to command line?
Then run
system-config-display --reconfig
as root.
My system does not appear to have a "system-config-display". When I type
sys<TAB> it is not one of the system-config-XXX listed!
Hope this helps,
Every little bit helps at this level!!
James.
Andoni.