On 5/12/2010 9:49 AM, Chaitanya Yanamadala wrote:
> Thank you for your reply Brain
>
> oops i have corrupted the entire system i think .
> but one thing i dont understand is y this has happened all of a sudden
> i choose to reinstall the cent os again..
> i heard that cent os is the stable version with less number of crashes..:(
>
CentOS is very stable - if this was a working system you probably have a
hardware disk problem or you've made a mistake running as root and
deleted some system files. Or perhaps you were running 3rd party video
drivers and updated the kernel so it didn't match. In the latter case
you would be able to recover.
If the network was up and only the console had a problem you might have
been able to connect from another machine via ssh and execute 'init 3'
to get a text mode login at the console where you could fix things. Or,
reboot, hit a key to get the grub prompt, select the boot section you
want, hit 'e' to edit, then move to the kernel line, hit 'e' to edit,
add a 3 at the end of the line, then hit 'b' to boot into runlevel 3.
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