Folks,
Any help would be appreciated. Have V9 of redhat installed. Had to reboot
machine after hitting the reset button (system would not come down using
standard commands). Machine cleanly boots without error to the init-2.5#
prompt, however does not proceed further to the graphical log in screen.
What is going on here. I have discovered at this screen I have access to
many unix commands. Have discovered that most of my filesystems are on board
accept /home and /apps. Is this due to probably corruption. If so what do I
type at the prompt to fix the problem and continue the boot process.

Thanks

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On Fri, 10 Sep 2004 08:21:13 +0000, Nick Evans wrote:

> Folks,
> Any help would be appreciated. Have V9 of redhat installed. Had to
> reboot machine after hitting the reset button (system would not come
> down using standard commands). Machine cleanly boots without error to
> the init-2.5# prompt, however does not proceed further to the graphical
> log in screen. What is going on here. I have discovered at this screen I
> have access to many unix commands. Have discovered that most of my
> filesystems are on board accept /home and /apps. Is this due to probably
> corruption. If so what do I type at the prompt to fix the problem and
> continue the boot process.

I'm not 100% certain, but it sounds like you need to fix a problem
(partition(s) unmounted uncleanly) or two before you can proceed to boot
the system normally. At the init-2.5# prompt do(type);

/sbin/fdisk -l

This will tell you about your partitions. For each of the Linux partitions
except the extended partition (hda4 for example) type something like;

/sbin/fsck /dev/hda1     ;repeat for each partition (hda2, 3 and so on)

When done with all the Linux partitions type; exit

The system should (hopefully) reboot normally. If not post back this time
provide the message(s) provided on the screen that you see a few lines
before the init-2.5# prompt.


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