On Wed, 2003-07-16 at 17:12, dsavage@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > On Wednesday July 16, 2003 Bob Mclaughlin wrote: > > My system is suddenly hanging at the login screen. I've > > been running > > RHL9 with the latest RH changes and booting to level 5. > > There is no > > response to the mouse or keyboard and only a hard boot > > restarts it to > > the same screen. Interactive startup works but it still > > goes to the same > > screen and locks up. Can anyone help? TIA > > Bob, > > Just a guess... By any chance did you happen to delete an empty directory > off the root called /initrd (I think) just before this trouble began? If > you did, grab CD #1, boot with 'linux rescue', mount the system > read-write, and recreate that directory. Minor nit-pick : unless something else is way wrong with the system, the rescue image will mount the system read-write by default, under /mnt/sysimage. There's nothing extra that needs to be done for that. But yes, the /initrd directory, though empty, is essential to booting properly if you use an initrd with your kernel. --Jeremy -- /---------------------------------------------------------------------\ | Jeremy Portzer jeremyp@xxxxxxxxx trilug.org/~jeremy | | GPG Fingerprint: 712D 77C7 AB2D 2130 989F E135 6F9F F7BC CC1A 7B92 | \---------------------------------------------------------------------/
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