[CentOS] big problem at boot

Sun Sep 4 16:58:44 UTC 2011
David G. Miller <dave at davenjudy.org>

Michel Donais <donais at ...> writes:

> 
> 
> I restarted the a Centos 5.6 server tonight and I 
> ran in this issue:
>  
> I was able to boot.
> Then instead of a normal boot with graphical 
> interface the system requested :
> 'Enter run level'
> 'INIT'
> I typed 5
> then I got 'INIT: no more process left in this run 
> level
>  
> How can I recover from  the 
> situation?
A tad late but you can try running "smartctl -H /dev/sdX" or "smartctl -a
/dev/sdX" where /dev/sdX is your boot disk.  Chances are that it will only tell
you what you already know: the drive is dying.  I've had good luck with smartd
telling me when a disk is starting to fail.  Partition tables don't just
disappear on healthy hard drives.

Cheers,
Dave