m.roth at 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. -- Bowie