[solved] OS won't start

[peterhodges]

it's pclos nov 2010 e17 with all updates

it gets to

creating /dev

trying to use  devtmpfs

and goes no further.  same with safemode

help?

[Texstar]

Please tell us what you were doing prior to this happening and don't say nuff'n cuz we know better than that. 

[uncleV]

My be your hard disk got filled up?

[peterhodges]

plenty of space on the partition. 

when i last shut it down, it hung for awhile and  then the battery died anyways and it turned off.

i did not see where in the shutdown process it hung. 

[uncleV]

Are any news there, peterhodges?
May be battery fail? Or hard disk fail?

If not try file system checking from LiveCD running the command "fsck". If you are not familiar with it (I am not) search the forum or run in Terminal man fsck.

(you don't want to search the forum with string fsck uncleV because you will get a strange proposal from the forum software. http://i51.tinypic.com/2ngzv9j.png ... )
 

[peterhodges]

excellent thank you. 

the other partitions are fine and it boots windows.  i will try the scandisk and post back.

[peterhodges]

thanks uncle that got it working

boot live disk, start root terminal, then

[root@localhost root]# fdisk -l                <Enter>  <-- That's a lower case L not a number 1

to see which drive you want to check, /dev/sd0, /dev/sda/ etc

unmount drive(s)

[root@localhost root]# umount -a

then fsck the appropriate drive ,i.e.

root@localhost root]# fsck -f /dev/sda1                  <Enter>


that got my system started anyway

[uncleV]

Bravo!

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