Omg Help!

[R4NG3R]

okay, my comp. got jammed and i hit the power buttun to turn it off, and i booted and the loggin screen is flashing on and off, not the GUI log in but the other one. And it won't stop!!! please help, and btw, my boot disk works i think

[PostCode]

Linux does NOT like to lose power. If you lose power you run a greater risk of losing data and NOT getting the sytem back. Try switching to another terminal using Ctrl+Alt+F1 through F6. THis will bring you to a logon pompt. Login as root and type in:

shutdown now

or

reboot

If the system absolutely refuses to boot, then you'll have to fsck on the drive. THis is kind of like scandisk for Winders, but very different. Linux works in blocks, not clusters. Anyway, it'll scan your drive for missing data, lose data and so forth then try to fix it.

[R4NG3R]

ok i'll try it later, right now i have to go to tennis camp. but i'll get back to you this afternoon! thanks soo much

[R4NG3R]

i did shutdown now and this happend:

some other things came and left then this was left on the screen.

Loading keymap: [OK]
Loading system font: [OK]
Telling INIT to go to single user mode.
INIT: Going single user
INIT: Sending processes the TERM signal
INIT: Sending processes the KILL signal
sh-2.05b#



and that stays there, what do i do?

[R4NG3R]

ok
i did it again and heres what i got.


Boardcast message from root (tty1) (Thu June 5 10:48:27 2003):

The system is going down to maintenance mod NOW!
INIT: Going single user
INIT: Sending processes the TERM signal
INIT: Sending processes the KILL signal.
sh-2.05b# _


thats all it does and just stands there. please help!

[PostCode]

I've never seen that. It's placing you at a prompt?

Is your computer an AT or ATX system? If it's an ATX, then it should support soft power and power the system down automatically. If it's AT then it should be safe at this point to power the system down. The file systems have been unmounted (the most important thing), all services have been stopped and all processes have been killed.

[R4NG3R]

ok, i think its ATX. Its a compaq proliant ml350. and when i shut it down...its the same thing! i get the same error

[R4NG3R]

if anything i can reinstall, i dont have anything on it that i wanna use. So if that's an option tell me what i gotta do.

[ceh383]

Try this at the prompt......

shutdown -h now

[MishY]

Originally posted by ceh383
Try this at the prompt......

shutdown -h now

and use shutdown -r now to reboot from console

[R4NG3R]

should that fix it? what do i do after i've done that?

[MishY]

If your computer doesn't turn itself off then you should be safe to shut it down after "shutdown -h now" finishes.

btw I am jealous of your server. I used to have a dual PII 512MB ECC SDRAM 5xSCSI Proliant and it rocked!

Damn motherboard blew one day though completely out of the blue. Salvaged the SCSI and drives, the memory and the CPUs, and the rack but I still miss it lol :(

[R4NG3R]

man...that's nice. Naw this one isn't all that great. Just got 1 processor :( . 2 hard 8 gig hard drives...lol 256mb. So you really shouldn't be jealous. lol, well thanks i'll give it a try.

[R4NG3R]

Okay, i did it and got the command to say

Power Down.

and so i did, then i rebooted and i still got the same thing! the non-GUI login screen flashes on then off. and it won't stop! It like. The monitor is on the login screen, then flashes black...then back to the login screen over and over. Then once i get logged in, i get this blue screen with a gray box in the middle, it has the choice of <Yes> or <No> but i don't see any typing above it. What should i do now? Reinstalling is looking really good right about now.

[ceh383]

Did you make a boot disk when you installed?

If so see if you can boot with it.
If you can boot to a command prompt there is hope.

[R4NG3R]

I did make a boot disk, what do i do when its in and it recognizes it?

[R4NG3R]

what do i do when i get to the comand prompt?

[R4NG3R]

nvm, i just reinstall.