Not quite sure, but it sounds like the system is booting up in single user
mode already. I would take a look at the /etc/inittab file to if it the run
level has been change there by any chance. Might also try running
'/sbin/init x' where x is the normal desired run level for the system
(usually 3 or 5), but from what you've said many of the directories are not
there so this may not be an option. From what you've also said this system
was most likely connected to the net at the time. It may be a case of a
malcontent running 'rm -fr /' or something similar.
Jamin W. Collins
-----Original Message-----
From: Dominic Mitchell [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, September 20, 2000 12:13 PM
To: Redhat
Cc: Letendre Marc-Andre
Subject: boot problem
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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