Re: [CentOS] Can't login after installing Centos 5.5

On Sat, 2010-10-02 at 17:55 +0100, Peter Crighton wrote:

At no point can I get to a text login screen (Ctrl-Alt-F1) so I can't even debug it!

Can anyone suggest what is wrong or how to overcome it?

Boot in verbose mode to runlevel 3 by hitting a character at the start of the boot to get a GRUB menu (<space> in convenient). When the menu appears type "a" to append (no quotes - actually edit) the kernel line. Backspace through "rhgb quite" and add "3" then <Enter>. Should boot to a text console where you can debug. If that fails, then try single user mode - just substitute "1" for "3".

Phil