Re: f24 boot fails; need help. [SOLVED]

2017-05-24 Thread William Mattison
My friend was here earlier tonight. The command was "fsck /dev/sda6" (no options). He also said he's seen this kind of thing before. Bill. ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to

Re: f24 boot fails; need help. [SOLVED]

2017-05-19 Thread William Mattison
You're right. I should see my friend sometime next week or two. He wants me to help him practice his cloud computing paper before he presents it at some conference. (He's an international student.) I'll ask him about the fsck options then. Bill. ___

Re: f24 boot fails; need help. [SOLVED]

2017-05-19 Thread William Mattison
Well, as you yourself said in an earlier post on this topic, " Memory is the second thing to go, but I can't remember the first!"! You are almost certainly correct - it was "fsck", not "fdisk". I just typed the wrong thing into my posting. Another "senior moment". > This isn't a black art

Re: f24 boot fails; need help. [SOLVED]

2017-05-19 Thread Tim
Allegedly, on or about 18 May 2017, William sent: > Yesterday evening, a third IT grad student (PhD candidate specializing > in cloud computing) came to help with this problem. After I showed > him the log file and the discussion in this list, we booted, and of > course it failed and dropped us

Re: f24 boot fails; need help. [SOLVED]

2017-05-19 Thread Rick Stevens
On 05/18/2017 02:40 PM, William wrote: > Good afternoon, > > Yesterday evening, a third IT grad student (PhD candidate specializing > in cloud computing) came to help with this problem. After I showed him > the log file and the discussion in this list, we booted, and of course > it failed and

Re: f24 boot fails; need help. [SOLVED]

2017-05-18 Thread William
Good afternoon, Yesterday evening, a third IT grad student (PhD candidate specializing in cloud computing) came to help with this problem. After I showed him the log file and the discussion in this list, we booted, and of course it failed and dropped us into the dracut shell. He examined