update 4.2 black screen of death and blinking curser to boot

[daktras]

i update 4.1kde to 4.2 and rebooted no big dael sulfur is great. but then after the kernel loaded i get nothing a blinking curser and black screen nothing loading after 15min. please help theres no erro messages that i know of but i am new to things and still learning in my personal thoughts. i have a amd chipset radeon 3300hd x2amd and 4gigs ddr2 please help me i dont wnat to reinstall

[ReemZ]

Please tell us what kernel you tried to boot, and the output of following commands:

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eselect kernel list

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eselect opengl list

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uname -r

[daktras]

okay reemz i will do that be back as soon as i have writen down the imput nice icon by the way

[kodiakmax]

you can also check your verbose mode during startup to see if anything is amiss.
alt+F2 then after a little bit F2
when cursor is blinking can you get to a tty? ctrl+alt+F1

[daktras]

eselect kernel list
not found

eselect opengl list
1 ati*
2 nvidia
3 xorg-x11

uname -r
2.6.29-sabayon

[ReemZ]

eselect kernel list
not found

eselect opengl list
1 ati*
2 nvidia
3 xorg-x11

uname -r
2.6.29-sabayon

'eselect kernel list' not found? Hmm...that's odd...that *should* give you a list of installed kernels (I'm guessing .27 to .29 here) like this:

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Sm0kerZ-ParadiZe ~ # eselect kernel list
Available kernel symlink targets:
  [1]   linux-2.6.27-sabayon
  [2]   linux-2.6.28-sabayon *
  [3]   linux-2.6.29-sabayon
Sm0kerZ-ParadiZe ~ #


(I'm not running the .29 kernel as I've had too many probs with it)
To choose the kernel to run, you would use 'eselect kernel set x', where x is to be replaced by the number corresponding to the kernel of your choice (in my case: 'eselect kernel set 2')
Next, you would make sure you have the correct drivers installed (for me this would be 'equo install nvidia-drivers', but you're on ATI and I don't know what the package is called), then reboot (obviously into the kernel you set in eselect)
With 'uname -r' you can make sure the right kernel was loaded (has to be the same as eselect)

Only thing is.....I wouldn't know why 'eselect kernel list' didn't give you any (useful) output, someone else might have to help you with that...

btw when commands are given, leave the single quotes I've used above out, but I'm guessing you already knew that

nice icon by the way

Thanx, I'm gonna live up to it right now and roll me one!

[daktras]

what if i did a kernel install would that help does any one know

[kodiakmax]

I wouldn't think that should matter, the kernel is located in /boot. Unless I'm mistaken that just means the sources aren't installed. you could check though with

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ls /boot


and you could install them with

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equo install linux-sabayon


[kodiakmax]

do this from a tty though. otherwise if you are doing it from liveDVD you are not working with installed environment but the live environment and you actually won't change anything. If you are working from from liveDVD try getting to a tty described in my earilier post that would be easiest. if you can only use the live environment you would have to chroot into your installed environment.

[daktras]

this is rotten luck i am accessing these forms off the live install but when chekcing and stuff i am booting up and going to command promt to work on what ever i need to fix things. i used the alt+f1 command to see waht is happening behind the hood it went through till networkmanager then went to the blak screen and never finshes booting but i can hit alt ctrl f1 and then dropp to promt i cant bring up xserver from there either let me know what to type if you need more info thanks