On jue, 2003-07-31 at 18:31, nick@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > hey guys, > > I would print you the exact output but as I don't have it in front of me I'll hope this is enough.....I'm afraid it will be. > > My box hangs in the initial part of the boot. Normaly the text moves so fast in this part that it's not readable but now after the lines showing it detects the various drives in the box it stops at the line reading: > > partition check: > hda > > hda being the master HD > where it remains indefinately. Has my drive failed? > Have you made a hardware change/upgrade ? Some BIOS setting modified ...? If you did, check your cables...BIOS... > I can't boot into rescue mode either......I'm stuck. If you didn't any hardware change, probably your hard disk has a failure. Try to boot from your Linux RedHat CD #1 passing "emergency" option to kernel, try to verify disk integrity using fsck. > any suggestions would be apreciated. I hope this help > thanks > Nick Hardy Beltran Monasterios hardy@xxxxxxx -- Psyche-list mailing list Psyche-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list