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
Jack Ling wrote:
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?
If you have multiple kernels installed, try booting an older one. I recently came acoross an FC3 box that wouldn't boot the latest kernel, having similar symptoms to this.
Paul.
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