redhat 7.0 boot hang issue

[wea at swiggartagin.com (Warren E. Agin)]

I had a similar problem installing linux from disk onto a machine with a bad
CD-Rom. I pulled the hard drive out of the machine, installed it in a
different machine that had a working CD-Rom (disconnecting that machine's
drive), and did my linux install. I then swapped the drive back to the
original machine and finished the install. It worked perfectly.

Try that with Windows.

-Warren Agin
----- Original Message -----
From: "Hugh Rutledge" <hughrutledge2001 at yahoo.com>
To: "Jerry Feldman" <gaf at blu.org>; <discuss at blu.org>
Sent: Friday, December 06, 2002 3:39 PM
Subject: Re: redhat 7.0 boot hang issue


> Thanks for your answer.  It's informative.
>
> Brilliant me.  We purchased the machine with no CD or
> floppy drives,  software preloaded.  (It doesn't use
> anything but the internet connection in normal use.)
> Can this process be done without a floppy drive?
>
> Hugh
>
> --- Jerry Feldman <gaf at blu.org> wrote:
> > It would be very difficult to determine the damage
> > done by an intrusion.
> > They could have placed a trojan horse or done other
> > damage you may not be
> > aware of.
> >
> > However, to get your system up and running,
> > 1. Make sure you have a bootable diskette.
> > 2. Boot an MS-DOS diskette. Run fdisk /mbr to clear
> > the Master boot record.
> > 3, Boot back into Linux using the boot disk you
> > created or any Linux
> > emergency boot disk. Run lilo to rebuild the MBR.
> > 4. Make sure that /bin/sh is a symbolic link to
> > /bin/bash.
> > 5. Reboot. This MAY fix your boot problem.
> > I would also check the date and permissions of some
> > of the more critical
> > utilities, such as bash.
> >
> > If you have a backup BEFORE the intrusion, you might
> > want to restore the
> > more stable directories, lib\ke bin, /usr/bin, /lib,
> > /usr/lib just to make
> > sure that they are restored back to what they were.
> > Hugh Rutledge wrote:
> > > My company runs redhat 7.0 on its rackmount server
> > for
> > > its web and email functions.  After an apparent
> > > intrusion,  the server will no longer do full
> > reboot--
> > > it hangs after the "freeing 76k memory" point.  It
> > > will reboot under linux init=/bin/bash rw.
> > >
> > > You probably know that redhat doesn't support the
> > > product,  our inhouse people have not been able to
> > > locate the issue,  and solving the problem buy
> > upgrade
> > > requires a minimum of anouth 120 hours of
> > downtime.
> > >
> > > Is there anyone who can help for love or money?
> > >
> > > Hugh Rutledge
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