Help rescue a FC3 server

[Paul Howarth]

Jack Ling wrote:
> My server been built with fc3. After doing lots of operations
> (installing a number of packages) for months, I experienced strange
> behavious on "the Nautilus file explorer".
> 
> Then, I decided to reboot it. But this time I have no luck. It fails
> to boot. Stopping at the stage when showing the line : "configuring
> kernal parameters....". Just stop there and never proceed.
> 
> I don't know what to do. I have the fc3 installation cd-roms on hand.
> Putting disk 1, they have the rescue option. But how to use it to
> recover my machine? While this is not yet a production server, I don't
> want to loose the latest changes/settings I've done.
> 
> How to rescue it?
> 
> Or shall I use fc4? Is fc4 more stable than fc3, have better advantages?

If you have multiple kernels installed, try booting an older one. I 
recently came acoross an FC3 box that wouldn't boot the latest kernel, 
having similar symptoms to this.

Paul.