On Wed, 26 May 2004 10:47:40 -0500 "Miroslav Halas" <fedora@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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. Hi Miroslav, Don't know what the issue might be that caused this. In order to get going you can modify the /etc/fstab on the computer to comment out the swap entries. This should let you boot without enabling swap. Then you can do some testing to see why there is a problem enabling swap and recover any data. To edit the /etc/fstab file, boot from rescue mode of CD1 and mount the drive. Or you could modify the boot line, adding "init=/bin/sh" which will get you to a command prompt without mounting swap devices. (you may have to do "mount / -oremount,rw" to make the filesystem writable before editing the /etc/fstab) Good Luck, Sean P.S. when posting, please end each line around 70 characters and don't use HTML.
