Hello, Try checking the root file system. It looks like the grep program got currupted. at the # prompt do fsck / and exit when it is done. try rebooting and send the next error if it does not work. Regards, Willem On Thu, 9 Oct 2003, Ray D. Stambaugh wrote: > 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
