Boot problems

[David Pippen]

So let me ask you this if I tried the rescue disc and I got the prompt 
that I had no shell what would that mean.
On Tue, 1 Feb 2005 3:23 am, Paul Howarth wrote:
> On Mon, 2005-01-31 at 21:04 -0600, micheal wrote:
>>  On Mon, 2005-01-31 at 20:11 -0500, David Pippen wrote:
>>  > I have had fedora installed and working for some time. But My 
>> lights went
>>  > out and the system went down,  when I turned the system back on it 
>> gose to
>>  > this screen that says INIT cannot execute can anyone help me.
>>  >
>>  > David D Pippen
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>>  Try booting with the rescue CD, and run fsck on /
>>
>>  After of course chrooting to /mnt/sysimage
>
> If his root filesystem is corrupt, /mnt/sysimage and everything
> underneath it may be garbage. In fact, /mnt/sysimage may not even be
> mountable. If you know which partition the root filesystem was on, you
> can just boot from the rescue CD and run fsck on that partition, which
> doesn't require (or even want) a chroot. You might also fsck the other
> partitions whilst you're there, too.
>
> Paul.
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