Have you tried to boot to single-user mode? What happens when you type
"linux 2"
at the LILO prompt?
-Stephen-
On Mon, 31 Jul 2000, Hadrian Oliver wrote:
> I sent this out last night, but got no reply. Can anyone help? Is
> anyone there? Hello?
>
> Shutting down httpd: FAILED
>
>
> For the second time now, when shutting down Mandrake 7.0 I saw that
> message. When I try to restart, it all seems to go as expected, right
> up until you would expect the login/password box to appear; it doesn't.
> Instead, the num lock light on my keyboard flashes on and off and the
> monitor (screen blank) sounds as though it is switching on and off in
> sync.
>
>
> All I have done is install Mandrake 7.0, PHP3 from the RPM included on
> the disk, MySQL 3.22.32 (server and client RPMs downloaded). I did all
> this only yesterday (for the second time) and today it all seams to
> have died. It only lasted about 2 weeks last time. Even my Windows'98
> which runs on the same hard disk lasts longer!!!
>
>
> Please, if anyone can help I'd be extremely grateful - I need the Linux
> operating system with Apache, PHP and MySQL (with JDBC drivers
> installed) for a major project with deadline in just 5 weeks!
>
>
> I run a standalone pc with 475MHz AMD K6-II processor, 64MB SDRAM, 13GB
> hard disk (8GB for Windows, 5GB for Linux). Don't know name of
> motherboard (SoundBlaster 64v sound and 8MB ATI graphics on
> motherboard).
>
>
> Many thanks,
>
> Hadrian ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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