Emergency Recovery: SuSE CD-ROM as a Rescue Disk

Wednesday, February 17th, 2010 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

Suppose the system resists your best attempts to make it boot. Now what? Count your blessings, because the SuSE CD-ROM doubles as a rescue disk. If your computer cannot boot ... Read more..

Emergency Recovery: Using Options at the LILO Prompt

Sunday, February 14th, 2010 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

Sometimes you might face a slightly tougher problem: The LILO prompt appears, the kernel begins to load, but then things go bad. Maybe the kernel is corrupt, or perhaps Linux ... Read more..

Emergency Recovery: Fixing stalled boots when your system gets unbootable

Thursday, February 11th, 2010 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

If you have a software problem, you may still have an easy way to fix the problem. Does the computer nearly start up (i.e., it has begun to start at ... Read more..

Emergency Recovery: Causes of System Failures

Monday, February 8th, 2010 Posted in Uncategorized | 1 Comment »

Several situations might render a system unbootable. The most common class of errors relates to a failure to load and boot the kernel. This might happen if you compiled a ... Read more..