Help: Installed TuxOnIce, System Won't Boot, Need advice on how to revert

[fivestring]

Hello all, any help would be greatly appreciated as I'm kind of screwed right now. I have a lenovo T61 thinkpad and was running fc11 just fine and had been for about a month. I got frustrated with the lack of sleep functionality and installed TuxOnIce from here . I guess it was for 32-bit though and I didn't realize it because when I rebooted to test it out it wouldn't boot and displays this message 5 times:

request_module: runaway loop modprobe binfmt-464c

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On the site it says that the rpm's he gives you install the old kernel without deleting the old one. Is there any way that I can revert back to the old one despite the fact that I can't even boot?

I can press the ThinkVantage button and enter the BIOS thing, so if I get my hands on a live CD could I boot with that and somehow set it up to go back to my old kernel without losing anything (assuming I can find where it's saved).

Any help will be greatly appreciated as I kind of need my laptop asap. Thanks in advance for the help

[stoat]

Originally Posted by fivestring

On the site it says that the rpm's he gives you install the old kernel without deleting the old one. Is there any way that I can revert back to the old one despite the fact that I can't even boot?

Hello fivestring,

You should be able to reboot and choose the old kernel in the GRUB menu. To see the GRUB menu, press a key during the Fedora splashscreen countdown. If you are not seeing the splashscreen countdown, then you have the timeout set to zero in the grub.conf file. You can change that value to a number (in seconds) to give you a chance to see the splashscreen countdown and press a key. Boot with your Fedora DVD or the first CD of the CD set and choose the rescue mode. Follow the directions until you are at an sh prompt with your system mounted at /mnt/sysimage. Then at the sh prompt...

chroot /mnt/sysimage
nano /boot/grub/grub.conf

Nano is a simple text editor that can be learned for the first time in a few seconds. Its commands are on the screen (e.g. ^X means the Ctrl+X and will exit nano, and so on). Anyway, change the timeout value using nano, exit nano & save the file, exit linux rescue and reboot. Now you should see the splashscreen countdown. Press a key before the countdown ends to see the GRUB menu. Choose an older kernel to boot. It should boot normally. What you do about that mess made of the new kernel, I don't know really. I think I would get rid of it.

[fivestring]

Hi stoat,

Thanks for the quick response. I will try that and post results.

[fivestring]

Okay, thanks alot stoat, that worked well and was easy enough.

What's the best way to go about deleting the ugly unneeded kernel?