[CentOS] big problem at boot
David G. Miller
dave at davenjudy.org
Sun Sep 4 16:58:44 UTC 2011
Michel Donais <donais at ...> 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 this run
> level
>
> How can I recover from the
> situation?
A tad late but you can try running "smartctl -H /dev/sdX" or "smartctl -a
/dev/sdX" where /dev/sdX is your boot disk. Chances are that it will only tell
you what you already know: the drive is dying. I've had good luck with smartd
telling me when a disk is starting to fail. Partition tables don't just
disappear on healthy hard drives.
Cheers,
Dave
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