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My box still boots fine +</I>><i> >> into regular mode but won't in safe mode. What is curious also, is +</I>><i> >> that I have another box that I am repairing for someone and it does +</I>><i> >> the same thing, it won't boot into safe mode. However, I tried it +</I>><i> >> on laptop and it does boot into safe mode. Weird. +</I>><i> >> +</I>><i> >> Anyway, any ideas on how I could get safe mode to work properly +</I>><i> >> again? I took a camera shot of the monitor and the output on the +</I>><i> >> last page of booting up into safe mode where it died[1]. +</I>><i> >> +</I>><i> >> NOTE: all systems are running Mageia2 +</I>><i> >> +</I>><i> >> Thanks for any help. +</I>><i> >> +</I>><i> >> Marc +</I>><i> >> +</I>><i> >> [1] <A HREF="http://www.parentreprise.com/images/Mageia/Photo0137.jpg">http://www.parentreprise.com/images/Mageia/Photo0137.jpg</A> +</I>><i> >> +</I>><i> >> +</I>><i> > It looks as though you aren't the only one: +</I>><i> > <A HREF="http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=266172">http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=266172</A> and the bug +</I>><i> > report quoted there may be of some help. Note that Fedora uses lvm +</I>><i> > by default. There are other reports in Google as well. +</I>><i> > +</I>><i> > HTH, +</I>><i> > +</I>><i> > Doug. +</I>><i> > +</I>><i> > +</I>><i> +</I>><i> Thanks for the note. +</I>><i> +</I>><i> This is really not what I am experiencing, although perhaps having +</I>><i> shared folders may be the cause of the problem. I don't imagine that +</I>><i> if my system were not to be able to boot in normal mode that I would +</I>><i> have the tools on me to fix the problem as I would be unable to boot +</I>><i> into any safe mode. +</I>><i> +</I>><i> Our Mageia2 systems should be able to boot, at the very least, into +</I>><i> safe mode, regardless of any prior configurations. I have 2 boxes +</I>><i> where booting in safe mode is not possible. +</I>><i> +</I>><i> Cheers, +</I>><i> +</I>><i> Marc +</I>><i> +</I>I just rebooted mine into Cauldron as a test. At the Cauldron +bootloader screen, I selected "failsafe." + +Everything booted OK and I got a prompt saying "Welcome to rescue +mode." I don't know if that is the normal result +for single user, but a few lines above, it said it was "Reconfiguring at +administrator request," and called a single user config. It would +seem that your problem doesn't arise for everybody (Wouldn't it!) + +Doug. +</PRE> + + +<!--endarticle--> + <HR> + <P><UL> + <!--threads--> + <LI>Previous message: <A HREF="008009.html">[Mageia-discuss] Booting into safe mode -- not working +</A></li> + <LI>Next message: <A HREF="008011.html">[Mageia-discuss] Booting into safe mode -- not working +</A></li> + <LI> <B>Messages sorted by:</B> + <a href="date.html#8010">[ date ]</a> + <a href="thread.html#8010">[ thread ]</a> + <a href="subject.html#8010">[ subject ]</a> + <a href="author.html#8010">[ author ]</a> + </LI> + </UL> + +<hr> +<a href="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-discuss">More information about the Mageia-discuss +mailing list</a><br> +</body></html> |