On Tuesday 08 November 2005 2:04 pm, Jack Ling wrote: > Hi, > > My server been built with fc3. After doing lots of operations > (installing a number of packages) for months, I experienced strange > behavious on "the Nautilus file explorer". > > Then, I decided to reboot it. But this time I have no luck. It fails > to boot. Stopping at the stage when showing the line : "configuring > kernal parameters....". Just stop there and never proceed. > > I don't know what to do. I have the fc3 installation cd-roms on hand. > Putting disk 1, they have the rescue option. But how to use it to > recover my machine? While this is not yet a production server, I > don't want to loose the latest changes/settings I've done. > > How to rescue it? > > Or shall I use fc4? Is fc4 more stable than fc3, have better > advantages? > > Thanks in advance, > jack ling Hi Jack If you boot from disc 1 and at the boot prompt type 'linux rescue' it will boot from the CD, load a kernel, look for your system and mount it as /mnt/sysimage. If you then 'chroot /mnt/sysimage/' you've got your system available to you so you can then look into what the problems are. Gary -- Gary Stainburn This email does not contain private or confidential material as it may be snooped on by interested government parties for unknown and undisclosed purposes - Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act, 2000
