There wouldn't happen to be a line that looks like this in his /etc/lilo.conf
append ="init=/bin/bash"
Have your friend try this:
boot his box
when it gets to lilo: prompt, typ this
linux 3
And see if that helps.
On Wed, Sep 20, 2000 at 01:13:05PM -0400, 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.
>
> He has a partitioned hard drive '/dev/hdax'. According to a
> 'mount ' command all the filesystems are being loaded but many
> directories are simply not there for example /usr/bin, /home/ are
> empty. According 'df ' states that the devices supporting these
> directories are almost empty. Does this necessarily imply that
> all data is lost?
>
> My first guess would have been to suspect a hardware problem.
> However we were not able to run 'fsck' has the filesystems are
> mounted and refused to be unmounted. We also tried to boot as
> "linux single" but still we were unable to unmount the devices.
>
> He just told me that he was able to make some bootdisks --- this
> will help.
>
> Any ideas are appreciated.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Dominic.
>
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