----- Original Message ----- From: "Nicolas Thierry-Mieg" <Nicolas.Thierry-Mieg at imag.fr> To: "CentOS mailing list" <centos at centos.org> Sent: Friday, February 15, 2013 5:24:11 AM Subject: Re: [CentOS] Boot failures Paul Greene wrote: > Hello All, > > I was having some issues with samba configuration and was going to > remove the packages and reinstall again. > > I think I might have rebooted before all of the package removal tasks > were finished running and might have corrupted something. > > The system successfully boots up to the grub menu, but after that the > boot process stalls when the centos logo comes up. I can't boot into > single user mode either. > > I'd rather not have to re-install the OS. What, if any, options are > available at this point? > > CentOS version is 6.3. > > Thanks in advance for any tips. >>haven't done this in a while, but I suspect in 6.3 you can still boot >>from the dvd into rescue mode? I'm pretty sure I can boot into rescue mode with the CD, but then what? What do you do from there? Sam