[CentOS] Boot failures

Fri Feb 15 12:18:35 UTC 2013
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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