Guys,
could you please help me with this problems. We have several computers
running Fedora Core 1. All of them were working perfectly for some time
(several months). Then last week two of them stopped booting. They
start booting and then stop after message Enabling swap space. All the
computers have the same fixed configuration running just plain Fedora
with one custome application. After analyzing user's behaviour we think
it may have something to do with use of USB key. Our users plug in USB
key to transfer some data. The only commong behaviour we could identify
was that if the users removed the key during shutdown or sometimes
plugged it in during startup it rendered the computer unbootable.
We have tried everything, the computers don't have plugged in any
peripheral, only keyboard and mouse (and we tried even without eyboard
and mouse) but they will not boot anymore.
Can anybody advice me how to troubleshoot this? I would like to know if
I can find out what is causing the problems or how can make the
computers boot again to get to the data and make them usable again.
Reinstall is not an option since as I said, the computers have fixed
configuration and nothing but the data changes on them so nothing
should be different from those working computers. Is there any
explanation how can this happen? Any help would be really appreciated.
Miro
