 | | | Can`t boot up! | Can`t boot up! 2005-05-12 - By Peeyush Maurya
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boo tfomr installation disk and go to rescue mode :
- check free space
- go through your logs in /var/log/
nobody is using that box doesnt means that nothin is going
in there.. there is a possibility that linux is crashed or
hacked(since it wont take the password set, could be a typo
mistake)
regards,
Peeyush Maurya
http://www.linux-faqs.com/
--- "Joshua B. Lilly" <josh@(protected)> wrote:
> RedHat ES 3
> IBM Server 8676, Model G1X
>
> It`s been running fine for months. It`s going to be our
> new mail server.
> No problems. Well, it hasn`t been touched in a couple of
> months (literally,
> the mouse and keyboard have been on a shelf and it has
> not been touched, and
> it has not been live and nobody has been able to log into
> it remotely or
> locally). So I try to log in to do some work, but the
> root password won`t
> work when I go to add users through the graphical
> interface for some new
> staff for when we go live. I know what the root password
> is, I know I`m
> typing it correctly, it`s just bizarre. I open a command
> line and try to su
> to root. su won`t work. Very bizarre. So I reboot the
> thing, I do it
> through the clicking method. Other than what I have
> described above,
> literally nothing - NOTHING - has been done on this
> machine in months. This
> means, not so much as clicking on the menu, not opening a
> text file or
> Internet browser, not clicking on the desktop: NOTHING.
>
> The machine will not boot up.
>
> {
> Welcome to Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES
> Press 'I' to enter Interactive startup.
> grep: /proc/cmdline: No such file or directory
> grep: /proc/mounts: No such file or directory
> Configuring kernel parameters:
> [ OK ]
> iiSetting clock (localtime): Tue May 10 09:57:36 EDT
> 2005 [ OK ]
> Loading default keymap (us):
> [ OK ]
> Setting hostname webmail:
> [ OK ]
> cat: /proc/cmdline: No such file or directory
> }
>
> At this point, I can hit CTRL-C and get two more lines:
>
> {
> INIT: Entering runlevel: 5
> cat: /proc/cpuinfo: No such file or directory
> }
>
> I can`t do anything else at this point.
>
> I tried to use RESCUE MODE from the boot CD, and I can
> get to a shell, but
> don`t know how to correct this once I get there. I
> checked the /etc/fstab
> and it looks perfectly normal. I just don`t get it.
> It`s on a UPS made for
> servers, but it`s still possible this was all started by
> a powersurge or
> something. Again, when I say NOTHING other than what I
> described was done
> on this server over the past months, I mean that in the
> most literal way.
> That is what has me so baffled. But at this point, I
> just need some way to
> get it to work! I`d appreciate any advice. I`ve
> compared the /etc/fstab to
> the one reference I could find to this exact problem on
> Usenet, and mine
> matches up identically to that one, so I`m thinking that
> is not the issue.
>
> - Joshua B. Lilly
> Patrick County Public Schools
>
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