[lug] Redhat 6 server will not boot

[Richard Mandel]

They brought the machine to my office, I plugged in my USB Fedora, booted
from it, checked the logs to see that xorg.conf was broken, edited
xorg.conf, and then the machine booted.

Re-installing is something we learned from spending far too much time on
broken Windows machines.

Richard Mandel
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-----Original Message-----
From: lug-bounces at lug.boulder.co.us [mailto:lug-bounces at lug.boulder.co.us]
On Behalf Of David L. Anselmi
Sent: Thursday, January 17, 2013 9:36 AM
To: Boulder (Colorado) Linux Users Group -- General Mailing List
Subject: Re: [lug] Redhat 6 server will not boot

Richard Mandel wrote:
> Got into the machine with my Fedora 17 USB stick. The Xorg log files 
> showed that there was a fatal server error caused by a corrupted xorg.conf
file.

So it sounds like it wasn't hanging, just failing to start X.

In that case you could use a VC or SSH to see what it's up to.

I worked with a highly paid consultant once who wanted to reinstall a
machine in that situation.  I showed him how to fix the config from a VC.
His background was all IBM but we were moving to Linux. 
  They didn't want my help on the project :-(

Dave
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