Re: [tlug] Computer fails to boot

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

David Bernat writes:
 > "Stephen J. Turnbull" <stephen@example.com> wrote:

 > >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.
 > 
 > All this would be fine if the machine weren't one I use to make a living.
 > 
 > I am pretty much out of luxury time to devote to anything other than
 > getting the machine back into working order by this afternoon.

Do you think we didn't guess that?  I'm describing the shortcut!  I
didn't say "take a 6-week course from Red Hat", I said "look at the
machine with *humble* intent to learn."