Will not fully boot

[Rick Stevens]

Otto Haliburton wrote:
> 
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: redhat-install-list-bounces at redhat.com [mailto:redhat-install-list-
>>bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Jeff Kinz
>>Sent: Saturday, September 04, 2004 12:30 PM
>>To: redhat-install-list at redhat.com
>>Subject: Re: Will not fully boot
>>
>>On Fri, Sep 03, 2004 at 10:09:27PM -0700, Sam Duvall wrote:
>>
>>>I have Red Hat 8 and the power went off. Now it will
>>>not boot past this;
>>>
>>>Bringing up interface ppp0:
>>>
>>>how can I force it past this?
>>
> temporarily remove your modem and see if it will boot, sometimes modems get
> blown with a power failure.  If it does then replace the modem.

You can also bypass that by using the interactive boot mode.  When the
system first starts listing the services, hit "I" a bunch of times
(capital "I").  This will start the interactive boot.  For each service,
the system will ask you if you want to start it.  Answer "y" for each
one EXCEPT for "network services".  Answer "n" to that one.  Once you're
past that, you can answer "a" (all), and the rest will start up.

The odds are that your modem got turned off or went blooey during the
power failure.  You can unplug it or remove it from the system to get
past this also.
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