On Sun, Jan 23, 2011 at 06:23, Ritika Garg <ritikagarg25 at gmail.com> wrote: > I am working in Centos5.5. Pen drive, hard disk, cd are not being > recognised. During booting, "mounting local filesystems [failed]" is > displayed among other errors which I am unable to see as the messages > proceed fast. Are these messages stored in some file, so that I can check > them and report all the errors that are displayed during booting. "dmesg" should give you some clues. HTH, Ken Wolcott