07-06-2007
You need to put the box in single user mode and try and find out what the problem is.
Firts get it in single-user mode, this may be done using "telinit s", if not you may have to hunt around how to do it.
Then see what volumes are mounted with mount, then go through /etc/fstab (or /etc/vfstab depending on your system) and confirm the volumes can be mounted, you should be able to mount each by using their mount points.
Now before going any further try and copy *all* of what you can to some backup media.
Now I am presuming that this is not a critical system, else you would not be in the situation where you have no installation media?
Last edited by porter; 07-06-2007 at 06:47 AM..
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