Can`t boot up!

[Peeyush Maurya]

boo tfomr installation disk and go to rescue mode : 
- check free space
- go through your logs in /var/log/

nobody is using that box doesnt means that nothin is going
in there.. there is a possibility that linux is crashed or
hacked(since it wont take the password set, could be a typo
mistake)


regards,
Peeyush Maurya
http://www.linux-faqs.com/


--- "Joshua B. Lilly" <josh at patrick-county.org> wrote:

> RedHat ES 3
> IBM Server 8676, Model G1X
> 
> It`s been running fine for months.  It`s going to be our
> new mail server. 
> No problems.  Well, it hasn`t been touched in a couple of
> months (literally, 
> the mouse and keyboard have been on a shelf and it has
> not been touched, and 
> it has not been live and nobody has been able to log into
> it remotely or 
> locally).  So I try to log in to do some work, but the
> root password won`t 
> work when I go to add users through the graphical
> interface for some new 
> staff for when we go live.  I know what the root password
> is, I know I`m 
> typing it correctly, it`s just bizarre.  I open a command
> line and try to su 
> to root.  su won`t work.  Very bizarre.  So I reboot the
> thing, I do it 
> through the clicking method.  Other than what I have
> described above, 
> literally nothing - NOTHING - has been done on this
> machine in months.  This 
> means, not so much as clicking on the menu, not opening a
> text file or 
> Internet browser, not clicking on the desktop: NOTHING.
> 
> The machine will not boot up.
> 
> {
> Welcome to Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES
> Press 'I' to enter Interactive startup.
> grep: /proc/cmdline: No such file or directory
> grep: /proc/mounts: No such file or directory
> Configuring kernel parameters: 
> [  OK  ]
> iiSetting clock  (localtime): Tue May 10 09:57:36 EDT
> 2005 [  OK  ]
> Loading default keymap (us): 
> [  OK  ]
> Setting hostname webmail: 
> [  OK  ]
> cat: /proc/cmdline: No such file or directory
> }
> 
> At this point, I can hit CTRL-C and get two more lines:
> 
> {
> INIT: Entering runlevel: 5
> cat: /proc/cpuinfo: No such file or directory
> }
> 
> I can`t do anything else at this point.
> 
> I tried to use RESCUE MODE from the boot CD, and I can
> get to a shell, but 
> don`t know how to correct this once I get there.  I
> checked the /etc/fstab 
> and it looks perfectly normal.  I just don`t get it. 
> It`s on a UPS made for 
> servers, but it`s still possible this was all started by
> a powersurge or 
> something.  Again, when I say NOTHING other than what I
> described was done 
> on this server over the past months, I mean that in the
> most literal way. 
> That is what has me so baffled.  But at this point, I
> just need some way to 
> get it to work!  I`d appreciate any advice.  I`ve
> compared the /etc/fstab to 
> the one reference I could find to this exact problem on
> Usenet, and mine 
> matches up identically to that one, so I`m thinking that
> is not the issue.
> 
> - Joshua B. Lilly
> Patrick County Public Schools 
> 
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