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RHEL 6.2 hangs at startup screen after forced reboot

Asked 8 years, 4 months ago Active 4 years, 6 months ago Viewed 19k times

I had to force a hardware reboot due to some CPU hungry application. It now hangs at the
start-up screen right after the progress circle completes.
4 I have no way to see what it is doing (checking the FS or something) but when I press +
ctrl
alt + del , a s/w reboot occurs in 5 seconds.

How can I see the regular Linux start-up log instead of the splash screen and at least
1 understand what it is doing.

rhel6

edited Dec 15 '15 at 15:07 asked Feb 10 '12 at 15:08

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use the dmesg your boot.log to troubleshoot the booting problem – Mughil Feb 10 '12 at 15:21

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Boot your machine as you would normally and when prompted to, Press any key to enter the
menu do so.
6 In the grub menu select the entry you want to boot then press e
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Navigate to the end of the line and remove rhgb quiet then press enter

Press b to boot your system.

You should now see the system messages as it boots.

answered Feb 10 '12 at 15:32 community wiki

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1 The "escape" key normally switched to the boot-up message. – AndreasM Feb 10 '12 at 15:36

Thanks a lot, this would probably take me years to find out! –  Nick Feb 10 '12 at 15:58

@AndreasM -- escape works, but as soon as the circle progress is done, it does not –  Nick Feb 22
'12 at 8:19

@Iain Your solution make the system continue to boot up, but unfortunately the stuck later after starting
atd service! Any addition? – SIFE Dec 26 '12 at 0:27

Turns out that selinux cause the problem, just adding selinux=0 to the end, and then pressing b
make the system boot up. – SIFE Jan 18 '13 at 11:30

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