[CentOS] Boot failures

Fri Feb 15 10:24:11 UTC 2013
Nicolas Thierry-Mieg <Nicolas.Thierry-Mieg at imag.fr>


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?