Anne Wilson wrote:
On Tuesday 23 March 2010 13:52, Anne Wilson wrote:
> Since I ended up with a large number of zombie processes for
> chromium-browser I decided to shut down the laptop completely, to get a
> clean, cold boot. There I came unstuck. This is F12, fully updated. The
> bubble fills up, I see the Fedora logo, then it reboots. I could try to
> catch it and get a level 3 login, of course, but since I haven't a clue
> what's causing this, I wouldn't know what to do next. Any ideas?
>
Argh! I can't even get an level 3 boot. I snatched it and edited the
grub
entry, but still it reboots. I came to the conclusion that grub must be
damaged, so I ran grub-install, but on reboot, still the same thing
happens -
it looks fine up to the Fedora logo, then reboots. I'm completely stuck.
Utterly absurd for me to suggest something to you -
like telling my grand-daughter how to improve her Irish dancing -
but if it were me I would run something like Knoppix,
and see what was in /var/log/messages , etc.
Actually, the last time this happened to me
my / partition was full.
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