[ltp] Problem : FC4 / thinkpad went to sleep during shutdown

[Carlos Maldonado]

try to boot into single mode

on a box with lilo, at the lilo prompt it would be:

Linux single [enter]

I'm not grub litterate so try to look around for the grub way to do so

Carlos

Oleg Sverdlov wrote:
> Dear all,
> Today the battery in my Thinkpad R51 notebook exhausted right during the system shutdown.
> 
> I've got a system with HD light and ON light turned on, and yellow Battery light indicator.
> 
> When I've got power cord back, I recharched the battery. Unfortunately, FC4 do not want
> to show login prompt. The system boots OK until the Login Screen stage. Then it just
> shows nothing. No reaction to any key sequences.
> 
> Can anybody help me to fix that?
> 
> I am running FC4 with latest kernel (_390 AFAIR). No ACPI or APM - couldn't get it to work.
> ibm-acpi is installed and Xosd , if it helps.
> 
> I also have 2.6.9 kernel from FC3 left in Grub menu. When I choose FC3 kernel,
> it loads just fine and I can go to Gnome, all
> services work OK.
> 
> I suspect there's a flag somewhere that forces FC4 to go to "sleep"-like mode.
> 
> Thank you in advance.
> 
> Oleg.
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