On 03/16/2014 02:05 PM, pgaltieri . wrote: > Today I needed to power off one of my F19 systems. So I logged out > and selected shutdown from the top right button. Instead of powering > off as I expected, and was told it was going to do from the message > that appeared on the screen, much to my amazement it didn't. Instead > it restarted and went back to the login screen. This happened again > when I tried it. So in desperation I hit the power switch. Well now > the system wont boot. Instead it always goes to emergency mode. > > I booted off a F19 DVD, went into troubleshooting and ran fsck on all > the file systems. They all came back clean - no errors, and yet I > can't get it to boot. I have hit the power switch to power off a > system in the past because it was so hung up I couldn't do anything > else. Every time the system has recovered, but not this time. > > Anybody know what I need to do to get back to a working system? > > This particular system is a Dell Inspiron 15 laptop. > > Any assistance is appreciated. maybe try to reinstall grub?? https://ask.fedoraproject.org/en/question/31318/recovering-fedora-19-boot-reinstalling-grub/ or http://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/Fedora/13/html/Installation_Guide/s1-rescuemode-boot.html or maybe mkconfig: https://ask.fedoraproject.org/en/question/9997/updating-grub/ -- Paul Cartwright Registered Linux User #367800 and new counter #561587 -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org