Re: booting problems

2003-10-13 Thread NfoCipher
On Mon, 2003-10-13 at 06:30, phani wrote: > Hi, > > I have a redhat 9 on intel machine.yesterday I was applying the security > patches for redhat 9 and I got segmentation fault.I restarted the machine but > unable to boot the system.I have the following messages > entering run level 5 > init

booting problems

2003-10-13 Thread phani
Hi, I have a redhat 9 on intel machine.yesterday I was applying the security patches for redhat 9 and I got segmentation fault.I restarted the machine but unable to boot the system.I have the following messages entering run level 5 init 5 :spawning too fast delayed for 5 minutes. -- redhat-l

Booting problems (continued, full details 4 help)

2003-01-12 Thread Didimo Grimaldo
OK, it still doesn't boot windows so this is the situation: I. My system /dev/hda3 WinXP active partition /dev/hda5 /boot /dev/hda8 / II. Both GRUB and LILO are installed on the sytem. 2.1 This is the GRUB.CONF file in /boot/grub/grub.conf # grub.conf generated by anaconda # # Note that y

Re: Booting problems (LILO removed)

2001-01-24 Thread Mike Burger
"Emergency" should be replaced by "rescue", I think. My bad. On Wed, 24 Jan 2001, John P. Verel wrote: > On 01/24/01, 11:16:57AM -0500, Mike Burger wrote: > > I've heard a number of people note that you can boot from the RH CD or > > RH boot disk, and select "Emergency"... > In RH7, the syntax

Re: Booting problems (LILO removed)

2001-01-24 Thread John P. Verel
On 01/24/01, 11:16:57AM -0500, Mike Burger wrote: > I've heard a number of people note that you can boot from the RH CD or > RH boot disk, and select "Emergency"... In RH7, the syntax at CD boot is "linux rescue" (no quotes) I think is the same in 6.2. The RH7 manual says to mount one's root pa

Re: Booting problems (LILO removed)

2001-01-24 Thread Vidiot
>I have a feeling only booting from a rescue floppy would work in a case >like this. How about booting from the Red Hat CD in rescue mode, then >mounting the root partition and re-running /sbin/lilo? That may work. >-- >Nitebirdz >-

Re: Booting problems (LILO removed)

2001-01-24 Thread Michael R. Jinks
One possibility is to put linload on the Windoze box, boot Linux from that, then lilo. Vidiot wrote: > > I have a person that made the mistake of reinstalling Windoze before > making the emergency boot floppy. With the reload of Windoze and it's > belief that it owns the world and its replac

Re: Booting problems (LILO removed)

2001-01-24 Thread Nitebirdz
On Wed, 24 Jan 2001, Vidiot wrote: > Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2001 09:50:10 -0600 (CST) > From: Vidiot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To: RedHat main mail list <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Booting problems (LILO removed) > > I have a person that

Re: Booting problems (LILO removed)

2001-01-24 Thread Mike Burger
I've heard a number of people note that you can boot from the RH CD or RH boot disk, and select "Emergency"... On Wed, 24 Jan 2001, Vidiot wrote: > I have a person that made the mistake of reinstalling Windoze before > making the emergency boot floppy. With the reload of Windoze and it's > beli

Booting problems (LILO removed)

2001-01-24 Thread Vidiot
I have a person that made the mistake of reinstalling Windoze before making the emergency boot floppy. With the reload of Windoze and it's belief that it owns the world and its replacement of the boot sector, he can no longer boot to Linux. What is the best way, or any way, to get Linux booted s