Re: [tlug] Computer fails to boot

["Stephen J. Turnbull" <stephen@example.com>]

David Bernat writes:

 > Everything written at the command line is effective only within the
 > live CD session.  Nothing survives to a hard disk boot.

Obviously your machine is possessed.  Try an exorcist.

Alternatively, stop trying to "fix" the machine, and start trying to
understand it.  Read the man pages for ls, chmod, mount, and so on.
Use "ls -l" and "mount" to explore the state of the machine before and
after everything you do to try to change it.  (Better yet, do that and
post transcripts here.)  Read the output of dmesg to see if the kernel
has anything interesting to say.