20 Apr
2010
20 Apr
'10
4:31 p.m.
I have a custom-built PC on which I've been running CentOS 4.x (kept up to the latest x) for a few years without any problems ... until this week.
Last week I was out of town on an extended trip, so I shut the machine down and powered off my UPS, etc. When I returned on Saturday, I turned everything back on, and the machine seemed to be booting normally ... and then it just very abruptly turned itself off, and refused to power back on. A short while later I was able to restart
<snip> Does it croak before or after it hits the interactive option? If after, hit that I, and step through.
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