m.roth@5-cent.us wrote:
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.
On the other hand, the symptom of refusing to power back on seems to indicate a hardware problem. I had a similar issue that turned out to be a bad power supply.