Woe is me! FC2 -> FC3

[Michael Hipp]

Net Llama! wrote:
> On Wed, 15 Dec 2004, Michael Hipp wrote:
> 
>>My upgrade from RH9 -> FC1 went pretty well. The upgrade from FC1 to FC2
>>went pretty well. Was getting ready for FC2 -> FC3 when things went
>>south and kept going.
>>
>>I decided to uninstall lots of unneeded stuff. The yum "group" commands
>>look wonderful. So I did a couple to make sure it worked and then did:
>>
>>   yum -y groupremove <long list of package groups>
>>
>>Then I detached the 'screen' session, logged out and went to bed. (I was
>>logged in via SSH from my laptop at home.)
>>
>>This morning could not get back in. Went down there and couldn't log in
>>over the LAN. Couldn't log in on the console. Console had a couple of
>>messages about restarting init. Did a hardware reset. Won't boot. Last
>>visible message is something about init restarting then a repeating
>>message about "spurious ack something accessing the hardware directly
>>might be Xfree". But this system boots to runlevel 3 so this is likely
>>not the case.
> 
> 
> Can you boot into single user mode?

Haven't tried. How best to do that given that it's not coming up all the 
way?

Michael