cannot boot up

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daisy a écrit :

> My Red Hat linux system stalled one day and wouldn't allow any 
> keyboard input.  We only use this machine as a web server and no one 
> was using the machine at the time. 
>  
> We tried to reboot the machine but couldn't.  The boot up process just 
> stops   The first time it stops at the following line,
>  
> INIT: version 2.78 booting
>  
> The second and third time it stopped at
>  
> Setting hostname  www.mycomputer.com <http://www.mycomputer.com>
>  
> I have no idea where to start looking for the problem, let alone how 
> to start to fix it.  I would be very grateful for any help.  Thanks in 
> advance.
>  

I would suspect a hardware failure, memory specially. Run a memtest from 
a live CD (eg Ubuntu).
-- 
Daniel