On 8/4/2014 7:30 PM, John R Pierce wrote: > On 8/4/2014 5:47 PM, Kirk Bocek wrote: >> Just had a problem with CentOS 6.5 x86_64 after the last kernel upgrade. >> It looks like the boot sector got hosed somehow and the system was >> unbootable. I was able to fix it with a boot to an install image USB and >> running grub-install. System is now bootable. >> >> However, I've lost the system console. No login prompt is provided at >> the console. >> >> The system boots and is remotely accessible. Services seem just fine. I >> don't see any error messages after booting, either dmesg or >> /var/log/messages. >> >> Can anyone tell me what packages provide console login so I can try a >> reinstall. > is it booting up in init level 3, or 5 (text console vs X-windows ?) Did I respond, init 3 - text only? I also recalled last night that I may have interrupted an selinux relabel process. So this morning I did "touch /.autorelabel" and then rebooted. Alas still no text login.