On Wed, 20 Sep 2000, Dominic Mitchell wrote:
> I am posting this message for a friend of mine.
>
> He bought a dell computer about a year ago with RH6.x already
> installed on it. So far he had no major problem with it.
>
> This week while pasting from Netscape to Wordperfect8 it seemed
> that all cpu cycles where being eaten. From what I remember when I
> discuss it with him, is that he rebooted the computer.
>
> Now it does not complete the boot process. The boot process stops after
>
> freeing unused kernel memory
>
> and then it drops him to a bash prompt. It looks like all the
> INIT processes are not being done --- almost no services are
> getting started.
>
> I do not know where to look for the source of the problem.
>
This sounds like it's got a badly grunged hard drive. Probably needs
to be fsck-ed. Either get a boot floppy or type "linux single" at the
LILO prompt and when it finishes booting, IF it finishes booting or If
it just comes up and asks for the root password, you *know* you've
got a FUBARed file system. At that point, type in the root password
and then at the bash prompt, type "e2fsck /dev/hdXY" where "X" is the
drive letter and "Y" is the partition number. eg e2fsck /dev/hda5 is
the "/" partition on my hard drive here, so it would be e2fsck
/dev/hda5 for me.
John
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