Hi I am running Red hat 9. The machine was working well and no changes were made. Recently there was a power outage. When the power was restored and the machine rebooted, the following error message was displayed: ============================================ Setting default font (latarcyrjeb-sun16): [ OK ] Welcome to /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit: line 70 34 Segmentation fault LC_ALL= C grep -q "Red Hat" /etc/redhat-release Red Hat Linux Press 'I' to enter interactive startup. Mounting proc filesystem: [FAILED] ============================================= Other errors were reported, but they based on the fact that the proc filesystem was not mounted. The boot continued to line 182 of rc.sysint and stopped. I ran a memory test and a file system check. No error were found. How can get the machine to reboot with out having to loose all of the configuration info? Whenever I booted to the install cd, It would erase the hard drive, repartition the hard drive and load the software with the default configuration. Note: I am able to boot into rescue mode, but I do not know what to do from there. Ray -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list