Description of problem: Will not boot. Ist reboot hangs after decompiling kernel, second reboot hangs gave login prompt but screen was flashing wildly - no gui. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): 2.6.25.6-76.fc9.i686 How reproducible: On boot Steps to Reproduce: 1.First boot hang was power on initiated 2.Second boot hang was ctrl-alt-del initiated Actual results: No gui - hang Expected results: GUI Additional info:
Third reboot in Interactive mode - logged in and ran startX - system reported fatal server error: failed to load Nvidia
problems with the nvidia module need to go to nvidia, we can't support closed-source modules. It probably just needs rebuilding though. (You need to rebuild it every time you update the kernel).
Solution was to reinstall Nvidia drivers in new kernel and reboot. $ sh NVIDIA-Linux-x86-173.14.09-pkg1.run