Fedora 16 continously rebooting

[Mark C. Allman]

On Sat, 2012-05-19 at 10:55 -0400, Armelius Cameron wrote:
> On Saturday, May 19, 2012 10:00:44 am Pedro Francisco wrote:
> > On Sat, May 19, 2012 at 6:03 AM, Armelius Cameron <armeliusc at gmail.com> 
> wrote:
> > > (...)
> > > I tried running linux rescue with F16 boot disk, chroot to the
> > > installation root, updated the system, and reboot. And this continuous
> > > rebooting happens again.
> > 
> > Is Yum working properly? No complaining of bad database state? I was
> > wondering if you got yum on the middle of a critical update when you
> > had to force shutdown the computer.
> 
> Yes, in fact I was able to update the system by running ""linux rescue" with a 
> boot disk, chroot to the install root, and did "yum update" without issue to 
> get latest update. It's still continuously rebooting after that.
> 
> It seems to me this is too repeatable / regular to be hardware error .... 
> 
> AC

Did you try booting the system only to single-user mode (run level 1)?

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