On Saturday, May 19, 2012 08:42:07 PM Mark C. Allman wrote:
On Sat, 2012-05-19 at 10:55 -0400, Armelius Cameron wrote:
> On Saturday, May 19, 2012 10:00:44 am Pedro Francisco wrote:
> > On Sat, May 19, 2012 at 6:03 AM, Armelius Cameron <armeliusc(a)gmail.com>
>
> wrote:
> > > (...)
> > > I tried running linux rescue with F16 boot disk, chroot to the
> > > installation root, updated the system, and reboot. And this continuous
> > > rebooting happens again.
> >
> > Is Yum working properly? No complaining of bad database state? I was
> > wondering if you got yum on the middle of a critical update when you
> > had to force shutdown the computer.
>
> Yes, in fact I was able to update the system by running ""linux
rescue"
> with a boot disk, chroot to the install root, and did "yum update"
> without issue to get latest update. It's still continuously rebooting
> after that.
>
> It seems to me this is too repeatable / regular to be hardware error ....
>
> AC
Did you try booting the system only to single-user mode (run level 1)?
Yes, and it would reboot within few seconds after I got the prompt. Regularly.
The only 'mode' I got it to not reboot is with 'emergency' mode.
This is about the strangest thing I've seen since I've used linux (started in
Redhat 5... )
AC