Re: [CentOS] big problem at boot [SOLVED]

2011-09-07 Thread Michel Donais
Than's a lot everybody who answered my help request. You just give me a way to search finding a solution. I noticed that the on the disk the boot sector was there and permit booting but the system failed because was'nt able to find /etc/inittab. That let me think that perhaps it was ok on the

Re: [CentOS] big problem at boot

2011-09-04 Thread Michel Donais
Subject: Re: [CentOS] big problem at boot On Sat, 2011-09-03 at 22:44 -0400, Michel Donais wrote: Then instead of a normal boot with graphical interface the system requested : 'Enter run level' 'INIT' I typed 5 then I got 'INIT: no more process left in this run level Try 3

Re: [CentOS] big problem at boot

2011-09-04 Thread Lisandro Grullon
groupinstall X Window System Desktop -y Let us know how it goes. --Original Message-- From: Michel Donais Sender: centos-boun...@centos.org To: CentOS mailing list ReplyTo: CentOS mailing list Subject: Re: [CentOS] big problem at boot Sent: Sep 4, 2011 9:29 AM Subject: Re: [CentOS] big

Re: [CentOS] big problem at boot

2011-09-04 Thread Always Learning
On Sun, 2011-09-04 at 09:29 -0400, Michel Donais wrote: It's whorst than expected. I booted the system with a Centos 5.6 boot disc in rescue mode and when it's time to search for linux partition on the system hard disk I get a message telling that there is no partition on that disk. So

Re: [CentOS] big problem at boot

2011-09-04 Thread Lisandro Grullon
Certainly that's a good idea. --Original Message-- From: Always Learning Sender: centos-boun...@centos.org To: CentOS mailing list ReplyTo: CentOS mailing list Subject: Re: [CentOS] big problem at boot Sent: Sep 4, 2011 11:23 AM On Sun, 2011-09-04 at 09:29 -0400, Michel Donais wrote

Re: [CentOS] big problem at boot

2011-09-04 Thread David G . Miller
Michel Donais donais@... writes: I restarted the a Centos 5.6 server tonight and I ran in this issue:   I was able to boot. Then instead of a normal boot with graphical interface the system requested : 'Enter run level' 'INIT' I typed 5 then I got 'INIT: no more process left in

[CentOS] big problem at boot

2011-09-03 Thread Michel Donais
I restarted the a Centos 5.6 server tonight and I ran in this issue: I was able to boot. Then instead of a normal boot with graphical interface the system requested : 'Enter run level' 'INIT' I typed 5 then I got 'INIT: no more process left in this run level How can I recover from the

Re: [CentOS] big problem at boot

2011-09-03 Thread Always Learning
On Sat, 2011-09-03 at 22:44 -0400, Michel Donais wrote: Then instead of a normal boot with graphical interface the system requested : 'Enter run level' 'INIT' I typed 5 then I got 'INIT: no more process left in this run level Try 3. If that does not work try 1 and see if the machine will

Re: [CentOS] big problem at boot

2011-09-03 Thread Lisandro Grullon
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Re: [CentOS] big problem at boot

2011-09-03 Thread Lisandro Grullon
See if you can boot into single user and try to init 3 from there...let us know what happen. --Original Message-- From: Always Learning Sender: centos-boun...@centos.org To: CentOS mailing list ReplyTo: CentOS mailing list Subject: Re: [CentOS] big problem at boot Sent: Sep 3, 2011 10:47

Re: [CentOS] big problem at boot

2011-09-03 Thread Always Learning
On Sun, 2011-09-04 at 03:01 +, Lisandro Grullon wrote: Try looking at your inittab under /etc This is my /etc/inittab on Centos 5.6 X64 # Default runlevel. The runlevels used by RHS are: # 0 - halt (Do NOT set initdefault to this) # 1 - Single user mode # 2 - Multiuser, without NFS