[LUAU] CentOS4 Hung on Up2date

Hawaii Linux Institute wp at HawaiiLinux.us
Thu Jul 7 23:19:09 PDT 2005


Looks like your MBR might have been corrupted.  This should not have 
happened, but CentOS 4 yum update once corrupted my "rpm" package.  I 
still couldn't figure out how that happened.

Before you take the easy way out by reinstalling the CentOS, I suggest 
you try to repair the MBR using the emergency disc (CentOS disc #1).  
Basically this involves booting from your emergency disc, chrooting into 
your root partition, then executing the grub-install command.

I don't have time to go through the detailed steps, but you may want to 
bring your computer to Michael's lab.  He has generously set up a time 
slot of between 10:00 to 12:00 this (probably every) Saturday doing pro 
bono Linux tech consulting work.  Wayne


Blake Vance wrote:

>Youch!
>
>Older NEC 333 MHz, 192 MB RAM PC had been 
>chugging along with CentOS 4 until I ran 
>up2date. After retrieving all 119 MB of 
>openoffice.org-il8n-1.1.2..., PC hung 
>(mouse/KB nonresponsive). Reboot yielded 
>"Press <Ctrl-B> to select MBA boot method [2 
>options] (Default is PXE)". 
>
>Option 1 for boot using TriROM:
>"MSD: no reply, then Rx2 Rx2 ... 
>File server could not be found" 
>
>Option 2 using Preboot Execution Environment 
>(PXE):
>"DHCP MAC ADDR: 00 10 4B 39 03 D0
>PXE-E52: No IP address received from DHCP or 
>BOOTP.
>PXE-M0F: Exiting PXE.
>Operating System not found"
>
>Any suggestions, before I reinstall OS? 
>Might I have been running up against a 
>memory shortage on the package retrieval?
>
>TIA,
>Blake
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